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Apple is facing an ITC embargo on imports of older iPhone 4 and iPads after Samsung successfully convinced the trade body that Cupertino had infringed on a single one of its patents. The patent, No. 7,706,348, covers coding and decoding of wireless signals within the CDMA architecture, and the ban will stop Apple from …

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  1. gnufrontier

    Symptomatic

    Obama's campaign spent over 700 million dollars. It's a laughable statement to say that $300,000 from Apple employees means anything. It won't be about campaign money it will be about how the decision will be perceived no matter which way it goes.

    The patent wars between tech companies serve two purposes.

    1. As a competitive weapon between deep pocket companies.

    2. Keeping new entrants into the market out.

    #2 of course negates a fundamental premise of classical free market economic philosophy: ease of entry into the market (of course all the other premises upon which this philosophy is built are not in operation either). Free market economic philosophy is like a fundamentalist money religion the premises of which have as much validity as Ptolemaic astronomy. There can be no Galileo however since economic philosophy is not a science but an art like politics. Economics used to be called political economy until the mathematicians got involved and tried to turn it into a "hard" science. All economic philosophies always have as their operational endpoint the consolidation of wealth regardless of the premises. Contentment is the enemy of accumulation and if there is one thing we all know about human beings, none are content.

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  2. Someone Else Silver badge
    Devil

    Of course, there is another end scenario here...

    That being, that Samsung and the Spawn of Jobs sit down, bury the hatchet, start acting like adults, cross license their patents, and start competing on the merits of their products (or barring that, on the merits of their Marketing Dept's.)

    Of course, that third point may be the stickler, but it seems to me that that is the most likely resolution scenario, and the Warm, Steaming Heap that is US Patent law can remain untouched, thus insuring the uninterrupted gravy train for myriad patent lawyers. See, everybody wins! (Everybody of importance, that is...we consumers be damned!)

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  3. ysth
    FAIL

    money back?

    You are making a mistake if you think Apple employees as a group agree with Apple in their self-described thermonuclear war on Android.

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  4. menotu

    Does this mean Obama is an Apple shill, as he is an Wall Street shill...

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  5. The Nameless Mist
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    Awaiting Ban at Customs Control

    I am personally awaiting for some smart alek at Samsung to try and get the i-devices that visitors travel with blocked at customs.

    .. hysterical laughter..

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