Samsung wins bid to sell Nexus in court

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/samsung-loses-bid-stay-u-201220889.html

by keltex • 14 years ago

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That is a very confusing article. I can't tell whether they are saying it is a good thing or not. When they say "on Friday" in the first paragraph, do they mean today or last week? Towards the end of the article, it says that sales were banned earlier this week.

Steko2• 14 years ago

"I can't tell whether they are saying it is a good thing or not."

The whole point of the media is not to take sides. Generally it's not really a great result for either side -- Apple had the tablet injunction upheld and Samsung got a reprieve on the Galaxy Nexus injunction.

ajross2• 14 years ago

I think from the perspective of a patent hater like myself it's a good thing (edit to be clear: a good thing on balance). The tablet injunction was based on a very narrow criteria in a design patent (basically that the Galaxy Tab looked just like an iPad). The "search from multiple sources" patent was absolute nonsense, and hugely dangerous to a functioning market.

berberous• 14 years ago

They mean today.

There is an upcoming trial in the lower court. The judge who will preside over that trial issued an injunction earlier this week preventing the Nexus from being sold until the trial can resolve these patent issues.

Samsung appealed to the higher court, who agreed to stay (temporarily remove) the injunction - so that the Nexus can continue to be sold - at least until Apple files its response to Samsung's request and the court has considered the papers.

mattdeboard2• 14 years ago

It's a confusing article for you, I guess. An article written on a Friday referring to Friday is probably referring to the Friday on which the article was written. What is confusing about the phrase "earlier this week"?

electrichead2• 14 years ago

That's not true. An article written on Friday referring to Friday probably means the previous Friday.

taligent• 14 years ago

Well that headline is completely stupid.

So basically Samsung can sell Nexus for one more week. Big deal. Any longer will depend on if the Federal Court decides they can continue to sell during the appeal or not.

This article gives the impression that Samsung won the appeal.

mparlane• 14 years ago

The headline merely states that Samsung won the bid to sell Nexus phones inside the courtroom.

danilocampos• 14 years ago

A pyrrhic victory. Not very many customers in there.

ajross2• 14 years ago

They won the appeal in precisely the same way that they "lost" the case. It was a preliminary injunction, decided before trial. The federal circuit said no, that it wasn't an appropriate status quo and lifted it preliminarily until they can come up with a firmer decision.

mrich• 14 years ago

What makes you think that Apple will win the case next week? The patents they offered are ridiculous and could easily be laughed out of Court by a competent judge (probably not in this case) or invalidated by prior art. Also one more week buys Google time to roll out the firmware patch should the patents hold up.

tocomment• 14 years ago

I don't think they'll sell too many in a court but good for them ...

chbrown• 14 years ago

Perhaps it's okay as long as that's where the online store servers are located; but I don't see anything about shipping in the article.

ptrklly• 14 years ago

It's confusing because it's a temporary stay of a temporary injunction, but other news reports suggest that Google will be selling again next week.

(See Update 3 below)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3136336/galaxy-nexus-no-lon...

fghjfghjfghj• 14 years ago

I suspect that they plan to remove the infringing features indefinitely, so they can sell while the appeal goes on no matter what the courts may decide. They can then re-add the features later, if the GNex is found to have not been infringing.

Samsung wins bid to sell Nexus in court

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