Apple and Samsung Both Get South Korea Bans 216
New submitter Mackadoodledoo sends this quote from the BBC:
"A South Korean court has ruled that Apple and Samsung both infringed each other's patents on mobile devices. The court imposed a limited ban on national sales of products by both companies covered by the ruling. It ruled that U.S.-based Apple had infringed two patents held by Samsung, while the Korean firm had violated one of Apple's patents. The sales ban will apply to Apple's iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and its tablets the iPad and iPad 2. Samsung products affected by the ban include its smartphone models Galaxy SI and SII and its Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet PCs."
Thats one way.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Damages (Score:4, Insightful)
That seems pretty damning to me.
How's the thermonuclear war goin' for ya, Steve-O? (Score:5, Insightful)
Starting to understand the whole MAD thing yet?
Why am I reminded... (Score:3, Insightful)
...of my mother threatening to bash my and my brother's heads together?
Re:Hahaha! (Score:5, Insightful)
You don't understand it. The lawyers are indeed really happy. They still got paid.
Re:Thats one way.. (Score:5, Insightful)
This is exactly what the US should do if they had half a brain. Nobody wins with software patents. Not even "Hello world".
Cold War strategy? (Score:5, Insightful)
I believe this is what was referred to as Mutually Assured Destruction. That doctrine probably prevented nuclear war during the Cold War, but alas... Apple's not as rational as the Russians or Americans, so it lobbed the nuclear bomb of patent litigation anyway.
Re:Thats one way.. (Score:1, Insightful)
I'll assume you're being facetious, but the general idea is that a company can patent an idea and profit from it on an exclusive basis for a short time. Unfortunately the 'short time' part has been twisted beyond recognition.
I actually agree with the original intent as it does give incentive to invent in the form of compensation, but now its just grown to ridiculous lengths for the length of time the patent can generate income and it stifles competition.
Re:Thats one way.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Notice the judge didn't ban the Galaxy S3 - this is a win for Samsung.
Re:Patent War (Score:5, Insightful)
Strange game. The only winning move is, not to play.
The only winning move is being a lawyer
Re:Thats one way.. (Score:4, Insightful)
I'll assume you're being facetious, but the general idea is that a company can patent an idea and profit from it on an exclusive basis for a short time. Unfortunately the 'short time' part has been twisted beyond recognition.
That is for copyright [wikipedia.org]. Patents don't last much longer than they used to - in fact, due to killing submarine patents [wikipedia.org] the problem has decreased somewhat.
Re:Thats one way.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Lawyers win. Why would they change that?
at least this will make LG happy (Score:4, Insightful)
This will certainly be a boost for the LG phones in Korea.