Samsung quietly drops its latest counter-suit against Apple

04 July, 2011
Samsung has dropped its latest suit against Apple in the United States. This is not a retreat, nor is Apple winning the case. According to Samsung it just needs to "streamline the legal proceedings"...

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  • Anonymous
  • Ura
  • 19 Aug 2011

The CPU in every iPhone/iPad are made by Samsung. What will happen if they decide to stop supplying them?

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    • Jewel Saha
    • uIi
    • 15 Jul 2011

    Can't Apple come forward to make any competition with functionality and user satisfaction against others? What kind of attitude it is? Do they still think that they are best?

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      • Laurynas
      • 0xM
      • 07 Jul 2011

      mark, 05 Jul 2011if you want to see future samsung products. just look at la... moreVice versa.

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        • Anonymous
        • q{G
        • 06 Jul 2011

        Janari, 04 Jul 2011Samsung are thieves. I hope they fail in court and pay huge... moreIt's funny how you say Samsung are thieves and go on to defend Apple. I don't have anything against either to be honest but I do know that Apple's policies are a whole lot worse for consumers than Samsung's ever were.

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          • Galliard
          • U3x
          • 06 Jul 2011

          Samsung has already won the market by galaxy series and nokia is nothing now a days.

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            • Anonymous
            • mTW
            • 06 Jul 2011

            Source for humorous car analogy:

            http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analysis/

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              • Anonymous
              • mTW
              • 06 Jul 2011

              Anonymous, 05 Jul 2011Let's put this in to perspective. All cars have a fundament... more1. The truth is, if Ford held a patent for 'four wheels and a steering wheel' then yes, Ford could sue everyone else. It's not about who invented it first, its about who owns the rights to it unfortunately, whether we like it or not.

              2. I disagree that your Ford example is what Apple is trying to do. Imagine you change the style of cars, and add a joystick instead of a steering wheel. Then you add new cantilever buttons with multiple contacts and fulcrum for the automatic windows. You also decide that whoever buys your car should get it in a white cardbox lol. You then design certain icons for your car's dashboard. You add a touch screen for a navigation system, and decide hmm, this would benefit from touch impressions being fitted to an ellipse fitting.

              You then patent all the above, and more, because you want to protect the work that you put into designing all these things.

              3. Next thing you know, the Sumsangoo 4000 comes out, and guess what, it has joystick, cantilever button for windows, similar icons on dashboard, the touch screen also maps to an ellipse AAAAAND sold in white cardboard bow.

              How do you feel?

              4. Conclusion: Is it possible Sumsangoo 4000 was designed entirely independently from your car? Of course, no one knows for sure. After all, the Mololorora came out with a joystick. The SolyEnection came with cantilever buttons.

              But don't you think its slightly more suspicious that the Sumsangoo 4000 suddenly shifted its design direction and had so many of the same features your car has? Maybe they are innocent, maybe your suspicions are right.

              I don't know about you, but I'd be annoyed in the above scenario. And THAT's why I applied for patent protection. And that's why I'll sue Sumsangoo.

              5. That my friend, is hopefully a slightly more accurate example of what Apple is doing with regards to Samsung. Also, what Nokia did to Apple, and what Oracle did to etc, and what etc did to etc.

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                • Anonymous
                • mTW
                • 06 Jul 2011

                Anonymous, 05 Jul 2011i understand the points that are being made the point i was... moreAh understood. On that part I agree, a lot of time and money are wasted on these things.

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                  • rPc
                  • 06 Jul 2011

                  Umm samsung makes apples screens...

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                    • mark
                    • 3Jf
                    • 05 Jul 2011

                    if you want to see future samsung products. just look at last years apple products simple as.

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                      • mark
                      • 3Jf
                      • 05 Jul 2011

                      this is just another stupid law suit twoddle. why dont each company develop there own original ideas. not copy someone elses. then sue then for it.

                      when it becomes popular. if you ask me. personally. the galaxy s is an amazing phone. but sadly a blatent copy of the iphone 3gs which came out first. so there you have it. samsung suffer from plagurism. on a big scale.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 3iS
                        • 05 Jul 2011

                        Janari, 04 Jul 2011Samsung are thieves. I hope they fail in court and pay huge... moreyou love Nokia!!! lol did you know that apple loses the case and now they are paying nokia why? cause apple steals from nokia so who is the thieves? and now comes the ios5 with 100% copy of android....duh

                        why apple delay the iphone release to September?........well when they saw the new HTC sense they said we will lose so let us copy that style and many more things...so I hope apple will lose

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                          • Laurynas
                          • 0xM
                          • 05 Jul 2011

                          Janari, 04 Jul 2011Samsung are thieves. I hope they fail in court and pay huge... more"Samsung are thieves." - Do you know that it is a libel and Samsung can sue you for that?

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                            • Rox
                            • F%J
                            • 05 Jul 2011

                            Janari, 04 Jul 2011Samsung are thieves. I hope they fail in court and pay huge... moreAgreed Nokia is a living weapon...you can kill somebody if you throw at them. But Nokia is indeed understandable by Einstein brains and are extremely user friendly (pun intended)

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                              • Anonymous
                              • p%n
                              • 05 Jul 2011

                              Anonymous, 05 Jul 2011Did you just hear about this lawsuit? Do you know that ther... moreLet's put this in to perspective. All cars have a fundamental shape of four wheels and a steering wheel. Therefore Ford can take sue everyone else, because their cars also have four wheels and a steering wheel?? That is what I see Apple trying to do! Radio's all have tuning dials or selectors. If one manufacturers looks like another will they take each other to court? Of course not! The command line windows in a Linux GUI is black as it is with Windows. Will Microsoft be telling the world all open source command line windows in a Linux GUI's cannot be black because they did it first. Let's just assume they did for the sake of this discussion. Apple are just trying to stop innovation and anything that might beat them at their own game by sueing everyone. On a personal note, that is why I hope upon hope, they lose and my ultimate desire is that they go bust!!

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                                • Sy
                                • 0Uf
                                • 05 Jul 2011

                                lol u are so narrow minded....samsung never stole anything from apple it's just that apple want to be the only ones with touch screen phones and high end.......now they don't even have a processor producer bcs the firm making processors for them WERE SAMSUNG...who refused to further make for them.....so i think apple are just a one button company who make expensive products for narrow minded ppl

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                                  • lyan
                                  • N@V
                                  • 05 Jul 2011

                                  AnonD-12907, 05 Jul 2011And samsung aint thieves, dismantle an iPhone u'll see sams... moreYou correct man..every thing is made by samsung..it means that they only enhance the tech. for thair own..ehmmmmm....quick thinking..anyway i dont like apple...LMOA..i sold my ipad after 3 week barely use......stupid product...

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • iGN
                                    • 05 Jul 2011

                                    Anonymous, 05 Jul 2011Did you just hear about this lawsuit? Do you know that ther... morei understand the points that are being made the point i was attempting to make is 'were will it end, if they put this much effort into building and bug fixing their devices would we all not be happy' bash their corporate heads together and get over it, every one, every where is getting copied or cloned take the bee from bonnet and get back to work.

                                    Idea for the mobile companies hows about you all make one phone btw you all come together and build the ultimate device triple booting OS apple android and WP7 now would that not be something to see.
                                    Hmmmmm... Jessica Alba (from last reply ;P)

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • mTW
                                      • 05 Jul 2011

                                      Anonymous, 05 Jul 2011Lets get this straight Apple sues Samsung, then Apple will ... moreDid you just hear about this lawsuit? Do you know that there are so many lawsuits flying all over the place? Major businesses suing each other is normal, after all, they hold patents, and that's what patents are for, a form of protection for intellectual property rights.

                                      Nokia sued Samsung in 2009 over LCD price fixing. A US group sued Nokia and Samsung over bluetooth. Google is being sued over wire-tapping. Oracle sued Google over Java. Nokia sued Apple over some patents. Even Jessica Alba threatened to sue Playboy over a cover of the magazine. Mmm... Jessica Alba.....

                                      Anyway, you get the point. No need to get excited. The courts decide at the end of the day, otherwise, settle out of court. Zzzzzzzzz boring.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • p%n
                                        • 05 Jul 2011

                                        Janari, 04 Jul 2011Samsung are thieves. I hope they fail in court and pay huge... moreNokia are unique in that their devices are low spec. and offer poor performance at a high price.