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[Kepler]

But Apple lost in Korea:

"A Seoul court on Friday ordered Apple to stop selling certain products in Korea for infringing on two patents held by Samsung Electronics for wireless communications, and rejected Apple`s claim that Samsung Galaxy phones infringed on its design patent....

"The American tech giant was ordered to pay 40 million won (35,000 dollars) in damages to Samsung and halt sales of patent-infringing products in Korea, such as the iPhone 3GS, iPhone4, iPad 1 and iPad 2."
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2012082514348

[Captain Corea]

Odd that you wouldn't include the rest of that link.

[Seoulman69]

I find it interesting that a British court threw the case out. It could be argued that it was the most neutral court, rather than the Korean and American courts which both had a vested interest in one particular company.
It was also sad not to see the evidence of the iphone blatantly copying a Sony design included in the case. It seems apple wants to have its cake and eat it.

[PatrickGHBusan]

[The Cosmic Hum]

[rollo]

Good for Apple: enough theft going on in the world. Rimm stole patents for years before they got caught. Rimm ,what a joke.

[TheUrbanMyth]

It's not over yet.

Round 2 is about to start as Samsung plans to appeal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19381096

[cj1976]

Apple should be sued for forcing people to use that shit Itunes software. At the end of the day, the people can choose for themselves what they prefer.

[KimchiNinja]

I work here in Seoul in this field (patents/tech) and think it's good news [no, I'm not a freakin' English teacher and have considered getting a T-shirt made to broadcast that fact].

Inventors have ideas, then stuff gets made. If you just copy what someone else did without doing all the inventing...well that's really easy, and there is no point in inventing, just steal it.

We all know iPhone changed everything and we all know everyone ripped them off *bigtime*, so it seems pretty simple to me.

"Oh that's nice, by the way are you an English teacher?"

[Moondoggy]

it's just a biased decision by 9 common people. the judge is gonna correct it for sure. and samsung will appeal.

[Zyzyfer]

[Kuros]

[lemak]

[cadurling]

It's obvious Samsung copied the I-phone, and the evidence proves it. To those refuting these facts (the evidence) please provide any facts left out of the US court case, as it seems like you have more facts/evidence than the rest of the world. Also this case has only been won in the US and is only applicable in the US. Samsung is free to sell there product s1/s2/etc in any other market and is not liable for damages in any other country not finding a patent violation. The thing is even in Korea they have been found in violation, though the damages awarded have been nothing. It also has nothing to do with a rectangle, it's the design of the rectangle and what's inside the rectangle that counts. The I-phone's innovation/design has been cloned thousands of times without compensation to the original innovator. Go to a Chinese online shopping site to see what I mean. The difference is most counterfeiters aren't a globally competitive company. Samsung knows they copied the I-phone and it's time to pay the royalty included to do so.

[cj1976]

I hope this opens up the way for a host of other companies to sue Apple. They are terribly uncompetitive. Apple genuinely fear Samsung because people seem to prefer the Samsung phones.