Introduction:
This article deals with the news about Apple-Samsung patent case. Being a news, it is not at all owned by me. I have just tried to give this news in a little brief with a bit of inspiration from a report from New York Times News Services, New York.
A report from New York Times News Services, New York: Samsung has to pay much to Apple in damages for
copying the features and design of their smartphones from Apple. Apple and
Samsung are two most popular mobile making companies. Apple had filed case on
Samsung against copying the features and physical design for their smartphones
from Apple’s smartphones. Apple has won the case finally, and the court of
America has found Samsung as culprit of copying their features from Apple. The
American court has declared a big penalty of 1 billion USD on Samsung, though
Samsung has said that they will appeal to the court for changing their decision
again, and will appeal into higher court for having another look on the
situation, if fails.
Apple had listed 28 Samsung products as the copy of their
products, from which they had blamed for copying 7 of their patents by Samsung.
Samsung had also been found guilty by another Jury, Earlier.
Before, a Jury of 9 people had found that several products
of Samsung had hit on Apple’s patent. Samsung had also been found a culprit of
copying the patent of physical design from Apple. Though, it cannot be
considered a very big economic loss to Samsung, but it has been stated that
other mobile/smartphone production companies will have to pay more care before
making/launching a new product in the market.
What has been found copied from Apple by Samsung?
Among others, some major features like- pinch-to-zoom,
multi-touch gesture, single fingure scrolling, tap-to-zoom, the bounce back
scrolling effects and even the design of Apple smartphones are found to be
copied by Samsung from Apple’s smartphone. Also the TouchWiz UI also copies
several design elements of iOS. A number of other features are also found in
several Android smartphones.
The court said that the patent from Apple are valid, and
they have not copied anything from Samsung. Actually Samsung had also blamed on
Apple for copying the design and features of their products.
It’s a big loss to customers, said Samsung.
Samsung said this decision should not be treated as the victory
of Apple, rather as big loss to customers itself. After this decision of court,
the products will lack newness and there will remain much choices for customers
to select from. Even, the prices of
products will also increase.
Though, it may take time(months or even years) for this idea
to be implemented as Samsung will be appealing in higher courts to change this
decision. And so, it may also take months before Samsung pays those million US
dollars to Apple.
Conclusion on the whole Apple-Samsung patent copying fight:
Below is a small video clip, where Steve Jobs says:
"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas" during an interview.
What else can we says as conclusion here..! ;)
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