Samsung was hit yesterday by a major defeat in the ongoing legal dispute with Apple. Apple has accused Samsung to include infringed on Apple’s designs for several products. A court in the Netherlands agreed yesterday to coat with Samsung sold top of all models in the company’s Galaxy series. Samsung has, in the Court seven weeks to phase out sales of the Sony vgp-bps2c completely.
The preliminary sales ban is valid from October 15 in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the Netherlands. Under the court order may not export the Galaxy Samsung phones to these countries from its headquarters in the Netherlands. The court order does not apply to other EU countries where Apple has not paid the administrative costs of its patents in these countries.
Yesterday’s decision is based on an Apple patent which is entitled “Portable Electronic Device for Photo Management” which describes a method for displaying images on a portable device using finger gestures. According to the judge in this case, Samsung has infringed on Apple patents for three of the company’s smart phones running Android 2.3. The Dell inspiron 1520 battery affected by the sales ban is Samsung Galaxy, Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Ace.
According to court to make the Android 3.0 does not infringe on the said patent. That means according to the court that Samsung must update the models to the Android 3.0 or threatening to sell the stop execution of seven weeks. According to the BBC, an update of the Compaq presario c700 battery that removes the controversial feature is also used to circumvent the court decision.
Samsung’s public relations director for Nordic, Erik Johannesson, according to PC for all the sales ban will not affect sales in Sweden. The Court’s decision is not expected to affect sales in other European markets. The sale of Apple powerbook g4 battery will continue as usual in Sweden and Scandinavia, said Erik Johannesson. According to the patent expert Florian Mueller as the court decision on Samsung’s headquarters in the Netherlands import phones from the factory in Korea, and then distributes them in Europe. About Samsung’s Korean parent company wants to ship the phones to other European countries, the company must restructure its entire logistics in the European market, said Florian Mueller in a blog post.
Erik Johannesson at Samsung says that the information is incorrect.
There is a Sony vgp-bps9 s battery that other countries outside the Netherlands could be affected. The reporting is based on the Dutch subsidiary will not export to other subsidiaries. Nordic countries, as well as other European regions, buying directly from Korea, said Erik Johannesson. Despite the defeat, won the Samsung big delsegrar against Apple when all of Apple’s other accusations of patent violation and infringement of design protection was rejected by the court.
