Oohh.. Comment/Click Bait
It worked on me -->
El Reg, Can you please add a popcorn icon? These kinds of articles warrant it for so very many reasons.
Apple's iPhone 4 and 4S and iPad 2 products do not violate Samsung-owned patents, a judge in Tokyo ruled today, according to reports. The South Korean giant had taken its rival to court in Japan and demanded damages for alleged patent infringement, and is now considering lodging an appeal, we understand. The ruling, as …
Err, just to say but Koreans do not appreciate - AT ALL - being mistaken for Japanese.
Not only are the countries staunch competitors but they have a long standing and cordial dislike of one another.
Putting "sayonara" and "ninja" in the same sentence as "Samsung" is about as ill advised as saying
that Jaguar is a famous German luxury car manufacturer or that The Register is a shining example of 21st century French journalism..... :-)
The courts need to stop this ridiculous saga now. These court battles are just hindering innovation, and preventing the next iteration of technology from being developed, because the message is being sent that you should not bother to invent new things unless you have a huge wallet to defend yourself in court, no small inventor would have a chance at bringing out their own products in this environment. Judges should refuse on-mass to take these cases on, or fine both companies 100% of a years worldwide revenue if they try and lodge another case like this again, that will stop them in their tracks pretty quickly given how much these companies earn