In UK, Apple Must Run Ad Apologizing to Samsung 190
sfcrazy writes "Apple has lost is appeal in a UK court against Samsung's Galaxy Tab. The court of appeals has upheld its previous judgment that Samsung did not infringe on any Apple design. According to the order Apple will have to run an ads in leading UK newspapers as well its own website stating that Samsung did not infringes its products. To ensure that the ad is visible the court also ordered that the text of the ad must not be in a font size smaller than Ariel 14. Apple will have to run the ad on its site for a period of one month."
Ariel? (Score:2, Funny)
Never heard of that font...
Unfortunately, Ariel has an install base of .001% (Score:5, Funny)
The apology message will render like wingding symbols for most...
Re:Unfortunately, Ariel has an install base of .00 (Score:5, Funny)
An end to the nonsense (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ariel? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe it's the font of the Little Mermaid?
Re:The ruling itself (Score:5, Funny)
I kind of read some sub-text there - that the two tablets are not similar because one is obviously from Samsung.
Re:Ariel? (Score:2, Funny)
Ariel [wikipedia.org] is a character from a Shakespeare play so I can understand why the Brits like it. The alternative was maybe the Prospero [fonts101.com] font.
Actually Ariel is also (almost) a font [rofls.com], pun of a Disney character [wikipedia.org].
Re:grammar error in link (Score:4, Funny)
Hey now, I have it on good authority that over half of the /. editorial staff can now say their ABC's without even humming the song.
Re:This is why (Score:4, Funny)
(I'm thinking about you, Lucy Koh)
Here comes a restraining order...
Re:Here's an idea! (Score:4, Funny)
OK "Upon review it was found that the Samsung Galaxy Tab was not a copy of the iPad, it was a largely *inferior product which really only bared cursory visual similarities to the vastly *superior iPad. Apple only wanted to protect it's loyal customer from wasting time and money buying an *inferior product"
Where the words inferior and superior appear, they relate not to the quality of the products just to the profit generated by Apple.