Apple has secured another injunction on a Samsung device. Today a German court issued an EU wide injunction on the Galaxy Tab 7.7 but denied the injunction on the Galaxy Tab 10.1N. While this will cause some to be upset, as Apple seems to be out to get Samsung, some should take another look.
What this really means, is that Samsung needs to get their act in gear and start designing original devices. No other company has been issued an injunction based on an Apple patent besides Samsung, and this is I think the 4th one. Every other manufacturer has shown that it is possible to make a tablet that is original and does not look like an iPad. Hell, Microsoft really stepped up and Surface looks nothing like any tablet out there today.
This just goes to show you how bad Samsung is at designing their own devices. A 7.7-inch Galaxy tablet got ruled it looked like a 10″ iPad. The same judge ruled that the 10″ Galaxy tablet did not look like an iPad. Samsung was so unoriginal with their 7-inch tablet, that the same judge was able to make those two rulings.
Samsung… please. You are giving Android a bad name.
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Quite obviously written by an Apple fanboy.
I think it’s obvious when 4+ Samsung devices have been ruled as infringing by different judges that there is more than just “Apple fanboy” involved. When no other manufacturer is infringing but Samsung, it’s obviously a problem on Samsung’s front. Not apples.
Am I an Apple fanboy because I’m upset that Samsung, one of the biggest names in Android right now, can’t make a device that can stay out of court?
What’s worse. Someone being mad at Samsung for these disputes, or someone who supports Samsung designs that have been legally shown to resemble iProducts. The latter sounds more like an Apple fanboy to me.
Fanboy of any platform or not, Apple has pushed bans for Samsung tablets all across the globe based on the design. While Apple points out infringements to other manufacturers like Motorola and HTC, they are always software based, not designed based. Samsung keeps producing great tablets and making new ones, but they still look the same and keep ending up in court for it. Why are other tablets not getting the same design infringement claims? Beats me. To an average person a tablet is a tablet and some could’t tell you if it was Samsung, Motorola, HTC or Apple just by looking at it unless there was a logo on it. People still ask me if my Vibrant is an iPhone while other people ask me if it is a DROID. Which of course it is Android, but not a DROID since that is a different device all together. I can see the similarities that Apple is fighting for, but if a person who is looking to buy an iPad gets it confused with a Galaxy Tab, then maybe they have no business buying either.
Dear Greg Billetdeaux,
You are an idiot.
With love,
The android community
The galaxy tab is nothing like the iPad that’s a but of a insult to Samsung I mean all the iPad is some glass stuck to metal I think apple is just scarred that Samsung is going to make a better tablet than them
greg what the hell are tablets supposed to look like, circular, triangular? whoever gave them that patent should have never given it to them cuz its a simple design and if there gonna be suing all the time then its not gonna drive innovation. is there any other way to make a tablet besides a rectangular body and a screen just like cars is there any other way to make a car (ok theres some weird ones out there but the majority all have the basic things a car should have) without wheels, some doors, etc or tvs, dont they all look alike with a flat rectangular screen, power and volume buttons but u dont see manufacturers suing each other for a basic tv design? and stormy apple is only going after samsung cuz there the ONLY android OEM that can go head to head with apple. samsung is the only one selling millions of gs2 and gs3′s, nexus, notes, if it was HTC then they would have there crosshairs on them but there not selling as much as samsung.
It’s funny you say that. Here is a lawsuit 4 months ago, from Bridgestone suing another tire-maker over a patent on it’s tire patterns. http://www.tirereview.com/article/98252/bridgestone_wins_patent_infringement_lawsuit.aspx
Other companies sue other companies every day. You never hear about them because nobody cares unless it’s apple.
ok but the point is there really is no other design to go by. u tell me how a tire is supposed to be without being round. have u ever seen another tire that wasnt round cuz i havent? its a tire its gonna look like other tires that are round theres no way to get around this basic principle
Surface doesn’t look like an iPad. There’s another design right there.
And their were patents on tires. The Radial tire (the standard today) was held in a patent by a single manufacturer for 30 years. No one could make this tire until 1949.
And if you saying the wheel, they didn’t have patents back in the stone age.
Surface doesn’t look like the iPad, how? Android 4.0 and up is just gonna use a screen and it obviously has to have a bezel so u can have something to grab on and so they can put some internal components in there. What else does an ics or JB tablet need? Unless ur suggesting to add some hardware buttons but that would be Stupid as Google wants to get rid of hardware buttons.
Well for one it is a *horizontal* tablet with the camera centered on the long axis. 2 the logo is on the front. And 3 have you looked at the back of it at all? It has a giant kickstand that folds off of half the entire tablet.
There are many ways to design a tablet, Apple didn’t just patent “a rectangle with a screen”. Patents are very specific documents, I wish I could find the actual patent for this anywhere but no one is saying what it is…
The Galaxy Tab 10.1N got away because they increased the bezel size a bit. That tiny increase to the bezel allowed it to not be claimed under the Apple patent.
Let me read this to all of you. Coming from the “Design Patent” page on wikipedia.
“In the United States, a design patent is a patent granted on the ornamental design of a functional item. Design patents are a type of industrial design right. Ornamental designs of jewelry, furniture, beverage containers (see Fig. 1) and computer icons are examples of objects that are covered by design patents.
A US design patent covers the ornamental design for an object having practical utility. An object with a design that is substantially similar to the design claimed in a design patent cannot be made, used, copied or imported into the United States. The copy does not have to be exact for the patent to be infringed. It only has to be substantially similar.”
Notable design patents include the very first one, for a font, awarded in 1842. And a patent awarded in 1936 for a motel that looks like a Native American teepee.
This game isn’t new. That patent in 1936 obviously wasn’t the first teepee, but he was awarded a patent on it, preventing anyone else from having teepee motels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
I was just about to say and you guys beat me. Next up is the new Triangle Galaxy 10 inch tablet! Free rubber guards so you dont stab yourself from the corners