Wow
Well, that might damp down the patent shenigans a bit. I wonder if Apple will appeal, I would have thought so.
Apple must run a national ad campaign saying that Samsung did not copy them, a High Court judge ruled yesterday - according to this Bloomberg report and a draft court order seen by The Reg. Judge Birss of the Patents Court instructed Apple to run ads displaying the notice in newspapers and magazines including the Daily Mail, …
Northern Ireland's not in Britain, but it's in the UK.
Perhaps you should learn about your own country before having a go at the yanks.
And in any case, the legal system of England and Wales is different from those in Scotland and Northern Ireland, so the ruling probably applies only to England and Wales.
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What makes you think Apple products are expensive to run? Once you've got an iPad, for example, the only obligation is to pay for electricity to charge it which is about 84p a year.
Source: http://www.mactrast.com/2012/06/charging-an-ipad-costs-1-36-a-year-less-than-60-watt-fluorescent-lightbulb/
How old are you? 12? Look around when you start work. You may be surprised how many rather good and innovative engineers are older than you. Think about it, idiot. Do you think Linus Torvalds or Tim Berners-lee (about 42 and 57 respectively) are still teenagers or lost their marbles the day they reached 21? Dreadful and unexpected; but the moving spirits behind UNIX, C, shell etc. are about 70, some even old enough to have died of old age, which you will not live long enough to see with your out-dated attitude.
No wonder the quality of young informatics types' code and design is so piss poor if you are that ignorant and rude. You are condemned to repeat the mistakes of your silly forbearers.
You're a idiot. Who said anything about him not being capable of doing the job? As for your example, fine engineers though they are do not exactly portray 'coolness' which was the point I made. Cool is just an arbitrary word assigned to things people think are good at the time and it is mostly the young who define it. Once you get a bit older you realise it doesn't matter a damn but when you were 18 were you desperate to be seen in the same clothes as your parents? Listening to the same music as your gran? Or were you like most people at that age who want to be seen to be different to the older generation, what you liked was cool and what they liked wasn't. Learn how to do critical thinking before mouthing off.
You're the idiot: Cool has nothing to do with age and is irrelevant to justice and anything except picking up a similarly vapid partner. As for music, I lsten to what I like, not what's "cool". Some is "cool" (as would be some liked by my grandparents if they were still alive) and other has been "cool" for upwards of 400 years and some is new and distinctly "uncool".
Justice is not about age. Being good at your job is not about age (except that older workers tend to be more experienced than youngefr ones).
So, idiot to even mention the judge's age as if that is even relevant. His experience and legal knowledge: those are relevant. As he has been appointed a judge, I think we can take those for granted in the British system.
Your personal feelings about Apple, Microsoft, Google or whatever are not relevant. "Cool", dispassionate evaluation of the arguments and facts is. For that, some maturity usually helps.
"Even better than a lot of young ones. Not so much or so many "substances" inhaled,injected or swallowed by the mature ones."
Speak for yourself.
I've personally stopped partying in the vicinity of youngsters, because they can't handle their drugs. And they're rubbish about discussing Crowley and Voltaire after a bong or two.
If they're forced to say something generic like "Samsung's Galaxy computers do not infringe Apple's registered designs" then it not only puts a stop of all other existing disputes, but also makes that new scroll bar patent which they're no doubt going to go legal with very awkward!
I assume they'll appeal and win though.
"That's what I thought, too. In any other case, worldwide, Samsung would just be able to point to the official Apple UK page and newspapers for an admission that they didn't copy Apple."
Nope. The judge has already stated in reaction to Apple's reaction that Apple are entitled to hold their opinion that it's copied, but in the eyes of the law it isn't. Just as GSK are holding by their opinion that Lucozade makes you run faster, despite the lack of evidence.
And it doesn't resolve any other cases. Laws vary by nation. If you read the Judgement in detail, you'll see that the Judge does reference court findings from Europe and the US that were placed before him, but noted that that was there, this is here, and he will hear the case on it's own merit not based on the choices of some American fangrrrl Judge, thankyouverymuch.
"Errmm - no it doesn't. In the UK only, it may set a precedent for a judge to consider, but each case will be judged on its own merits."
But in any other country Samsung's lawyer is simply going to point to their own UK website and say "Why does this say that Samsung aren't copying you ?". Sure they can say "because the UK court is wrong" but it doesn't take away from the fact that their own site has a statement opposing their other law-suits.
Of course, I expect Apple to wriggle a hell of a lot before they'll actually do this. Would they actually pull-out of the UK market before complying with this?
of course they wont pull out of the UK market, all that will happen is that for 6 months there will be a statement on the footer of the uk homepage (in a suitably small almost white font) saying samsung didn't copy them.
of course you will not get a chance to read it because after 1.1 seconds you will be redirected to an experimental welcome page that is being trialled for 6 months, of course this new page will not feature the statement since it is not the home page
The judge can't order Apple to change its corporate mind. The case-law implications in other jurisdictions would be the same, whether or not the judge had ordered the publicity. With respect to future Apple vs Samsung action, the publicity order is a non-issue.
Whether it'll hurt Apple's sales remain to be seen. People do not like bully-boy companies, though to what extent this will tar Apple with that brush remains to be seen. Their Teflon coat is probably good for a while yet.
"Of course, I expect Apple to wriggle a hell of a lot before they'll actually do this. Would they actually pull-out of the UK market before complying with this?"
Would they? Please? PLEASE?
Personally I'd like to buy the Judge a pint for having the balls to say 'You've been naughty and now you have to say sorry - publicly' to Apple.
There's no fine that would be likely to be imposed that Apple could care about financially but given their image obsession this is probably a better/more fitting penalty anyway.
Will also give companies something to think about when they're bring what are essentially nonsense lawsuits designed to harass competitors and hinder their sales.
You're right - and the deeper you delve the worse it gets....many people think this is just about copying the ground-breaking rectangular display paradigm pioneered by Apple, but they couldn't be more wrong....
....a recent teardown has shown that the SoC, RAM and many components inside Samsung's offerings have been slavishly copied from those Apple use in their devices.
Perhaps Apple slavishly copied the placing of industry-standard Intel x86 processors, RAM, graphics cards and so on inside their laptops and PCs. In fact so slavishly, you could run Windows or Linux on them if you were sufficiently warped to want to do so. Perhaps you could run OS/2 on them and replace the front badge with PS/2 (you know, the IBM one) perhaps with a small "compatible" badge next to it, only it would run a little faster than the original.
As well as looking to some people like possibly "copying" all the other ARM licensees on their ARM gear. Lots of prior art if you want to look at it that way. I imagine they could well all use similar RAM. If Apple didn't want to look similar to the other licensees they would have licensed something else instead, like MIPS.
Incidentally maybe you should be careful of making such bold statements as "X copied Y". Maybe you will be the next person funding newspaper and web adverts ;)
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