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Apple proves it didn’t copy Sony, judge won’t let Samsung use “Apple-copied-Sony” evidence [Apple vs Samsung]

Ashraf July 30, 2012 7

So you thought Apple copied Sony, eh? Yeah, well, so did I. The truth is, Apple didn’t. Or at least Apple didn’t according to court documents it has filed in the on going Apple vs Samsung battle.

Not surprisingly, Apple filed a motion to suppress Samsung’s Apple-copied-Sony evidence. As reported [...]

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Customers mistook Samsung tablets for iPads, says Best Buy [Apple vs Samsung]

Ashraf July 29, 2012 14

In Apple vs Samsung court documents unearthed by AllThingsD, it has been revealed that Best Buy, a major electronic retailer in the United States, told Samsung that customers were returning Samsung’s tablets because they mistakenly thought they were iPads.

Samsung is being forced by the judge to furnish a [...]

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Google (and others) warned Samsung against copying Apple, according to Apple [Apple vs Samsung]

Ashraf July 26, 2012 0

Gearing up for battle, Samsung is prepared to use Apple against itself. In contrast, Apple is prepared to use Google, Samsung, and external designers against Samsung. Apple is alleging Samsung was warned by multiple parties that Samsung products related too closely to Apple’s iPhone and iPad.

As per Apple’s trial [...]

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Apple’s iPhone copied Sony’s design, according to Samsung [Apple vs Samsung]

Ashraf July 26, 2012 3

Apple vs Samsung is set to go to court in the USA on Monday. Apple is taking Samsung to court for patent infringement and copying Apple designs. Based on court filings, it has emerged one of the ways Samsung will defend itself is by using Apple’s own medicine against it: [...]

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Apple vs Samsung: Galaxy Tab 7.7 banned in European Union

Ashraf July 24, 2012 4

In the seemingly never ending battle, a new development has emerged in Apple vs Samsung: Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.7 has been banned throughout the European Union.

A German court has ruled Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 infringes on Apple drawings from 2004. As such, the Galaxy Tab 7.7 is considered to [...]

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Judge orders Apple to display Samsung ads on website, newspapers, and magazines

Ashraf July 21, 2012 3

In the ongoing drama that is Apple vs Samsung, after ruling Samsung did not copy Apple because Galaxy Tabs are not as “cool” as the iPad, UK’s Judge Colin Birss has ordered Apple to run Samsung ads as a way to counteract any impressions that Samsung is copying the iPad.[...]

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Apple’s earliest iPad prototype is from 2002, we have images to show you

Ashraf July 18, 2012 0

Although most of us have come to dislike the ongoing patent wars between Apple and the rest of the world, at times some good can emerge from them. Images from a December 2011 deposition in an Apple vs Samsung fight have emerged, showing Apple’s earliest iPad prototype from 2002. It [...]

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Samsung tablet not “cool” enough to copy iPad, says UK judge

Ashraf July 13, 2012 0

Another day, another fight between Samsung and Apple. This time the battlefield is an English courtroom and the victor is Samsung albeit with a bloody nose.

Apple has sued Samsung in the USA and Germany claiming Samsung’s Galaxy Tabs copied iPad’s design. In the UK, however, Samsung filed a lawsuit [...]

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Request to lift ban on Samsung Galaxy Nexus denied; Google and Samsung have a fix in the works

Godwin July 5, 2012 1

Acting on the lawsuit filed by Apple against Samsung accusing the latter to have violated Apple’s intellectual property, last week a US court judge, Lucy Koh, had granted an injunction, banning the sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the US.

Samsung, of course, filed an appeal against this ban. The [...]

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US Judge grants Apple an injunction on Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Locutus June 29, 2012 3

Two days ago, Google quietly dropped the price of their flagship smartphone the Galaxy Nexus to a tiny $349 off-contract. Today, California’s Northern District Court ruled that the device indeed infringes on some of Apple’s patents. Once Apple pays a measly $95 million bond, Samsung will be forced to stop [...]

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Samsung vs Apple: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales banned by US court

Godwin June 28, 2012 5

Samsung and Apple have been busy for quite some time now filing suites against each other and blaming the other of copying their products and infringing patents. In a recent development reported by dotTech, a Dutch court had found Apple guilty of infringing one of the four patents Samsung accused [...]

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