These foreigners can be ever so insubordinate. Samsung has just won a patent case against Apple in Japan:
Apple Inc. lost a patent lawsuit in Japan as a Tokyo judge ruled that Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) smartphones and a tablet computer didn?t infringe on an Apple invention for synchronizing music and video data with servers.
When South Korean courts ruled on a slightly different matter, both Samsung and Apple were found in breach of each others? patents. Japan sides with Samsung here, Australia and the UK largely with Samsung. Why there are even some who mutter that the US case so recently decided was influenced by a home court advantage. It could be that the general outcome of all these cases is a fragmentation of the global marketplace: with all the losses through inefficiency that would bring.
Apple is suing Samsung again over a different set of patents:
Another Apple suit, which the company filed in February, contends that all eight of the patents it is asserting are being infringed by features related to Android. They include features found in Android versions of popular Google apps like YouTube, Google Maps and Gmail as well as Google?s Quick Search Box that lets users search multiple types of data at the same time.
As part of the case, Apple has sought to stop sales of the Galaxy Nexus phone, which Google developed with Samsung. In addition to sales through wireless carriers, Google sells the phone directly through an online store, taking a small cut of the sales.
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Apparently Tim Cook and Larry Page are trying to discuss a way out of this state of permanent litigation.
Tim Cook, boss of Apple, and Larry Page, chief executive of Google, are said to have had ?at least one conversation? about the patent battles that are costing both companies hundreds of millions of pounds.
The sources said that Mr Cook and Mr Page had discussed a range of intellectual property matters and could be considering a truce over basic features and functions on Google?s Android software, according to Reuters tonight.
The problem would seem to be that their interests are so diametrically opposed that what could they agree upon?
A claim that Apple?s win over Samsung is the beginning of the end for the company. Apple that is: the complacency engendered by legal protection will kill it.
And finally, no, Samsung has not paid the fine to Apple in nickels. There probably aren?t enough nickels in circulation, it would weigh far too much and anyway, it?s only the Government that has to take bills paid in coins.
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