Samsung proposes secret deal with Apple in Australia

By on Sep 30, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Legal September 30, 2011

Samsung recently offered Apple a secret deal in Australia that could potentially allow the South Korea-based phone maker to put its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet on store shelves as soon as next week, The Wall Street Journal said Friday. Samsung’s lawyer David Catterns discussed the deal briefly in the Federal Court in Sydney but did not divulge the details of Samsung’s offer. However, Apple lawyer Stephen Burley suggested the iPhone maker may be interested in taking Samsung up on the offer. Samsung’s “inconvenience would be diminished and we would be comforted” if the deal was accepted, Burley explained. Apple and Samsung are locked up in multiple patent-related lawsuits around the globe, as Apple has accused Samsung of creating “copycat” versions of its iPad and iPhone. An injunction has not been leveled in Australia just yet, but Samsung has agreed not to sell or advertise the Galaxy Tab 10.1 until a judge rules whether or not Samsung is in violation of Apple’s patents.

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  • Supermartin73

    Boooooo patent battles

  • Anonymous

    Samsung blinked. Apple will rule the world.  true story™©®

    • Anonymous

      I hate you but in this case you are right. Samsung has caved in to Microsoft and now it looks like they will cave to Apple. Clearly they are losing. Bans in Australia and Europe set the precedent.

    • Wirelessmodz

       true story™©® no one likes you scroat

  • Anonymous

    First! Eureka!!!

  • Anonymous

    How “secret” can it be if you know about it?

    • Anonymous

      The details are secret… But it sure looks like Samsung blinked first.

      • Anonymous

        It doesn’t “look” like anything except Samsung trying to get their product to market ahead of the holiday shopping season. My point is there is no “secret”.

      • Anonymous

        OK. The point is that the terms that Samsung are asking Apple to agree to are secret. The fact that Samsung is trying to make nice to Apple isn’t secret. The fact that Samsung want to sell their KIRF tablet in Australia for the holidays is not secret. The secret is all in what Samsung are offering Apple.

      • Anonymous

        Samsung might be offering not to counter sue for damages caused by Apple asking the courts to bar distribution. If the deal is “secret” that is possible, correct?

      • Anonymous

        Yup that is possible… But at the moment it looks like Samsung don’t think they are going to win this – hence the offer. Apple will only owe damages if Samsung eventually win out in court.

      • Anonymous

        I doubt that is what it looks like at all. Samsung wants to get the device to the market ahead of Christmas. That’s it. Apple wants to delay. Samsung could be offering to drop similar threats to impede the sale of Apple devices in Korea and elsewhere. We don’t know. That is the point. We don’t know. Because we don’t know its premature to infer this “means” anything about the validity of the case.

      • Anonymous

        Actually the other bit of the argument you are missing is that IF Apple win this then this will be taken into consideration by the other places that Apple are fighting this battle. So if Apple folds here, then Samsung win. 

        “We don’t know” equates to “secret”, which is what you were complaining it wasn’t in your first post.

      • Anonymous

        I’m not missing anything. Apple is fighting Samsung in places it stands a decent chance of winning — like Germany where IP laws historically favor plaintiffs. The case Apple is making elsewhere is of
        the nuisance variety but such arguments can be very effective. In this case it is stopping Samsung from getting the devices on the shelves ahead of the holidays.

        Again, with reference to the word “secret”; my complaint is largely semantics. A deal is not “secret” if people know there is a deal. In this case, we know, from published reports in reputable publications (not blogs), Samsung and Apple are trying to work out something. That means it is not a “secret”.

        BGR is doing here what it does very often. It is publishing
        a sensational headline and encouraging readers to draw inferences that can not be backed-up by the known facts.

      • Anonymous

        Get your head out of your ass moron. If samsung was in a position of strength they would not be making the first move.

      • Anonymous

        You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. In legal proceedings both plaintiffs and defendants will make overtures. Doing so doesn’t convey either strength or weakness. The real world doesn’t operate like some TV drama.

      • Anonymous

        Hmmmm let’s see. There is a ban in place in Australia and Germany preventing samsung from selling their products. Samsung offers apple a deal for Australia out of the blue and ahead of the court date. Yes I see your point. Samsung is in the drivers seat here. They are definitely not the ones making any concessions or offering anything that apple wants. They clearly hold all the aces and are just trying to look weak for the public so we don’t see them as bullies.

      • Anonymous

        See, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

      • Anonymous

        But I just agreed with you.

  • Anonymous

    Why would Samsung agree not to sell or advertise while the case is pending? Isn’t the normal procedure to keep things the way they are until it’s worked its way through the courts?

    • Anonymous

      If they know theyre guilty, perhaps the fines they’d be hit with are more than whatever profit they’d make from selling to a few Aussies

  • Anonymous

    Samsung was testing the strength of apple…and they found out!!

  • http://MobileGenius.wordpress.com JM

    This is still about money. Always has been. Samsung knows it will lose more in fighting this than they would gain by possibly winning any court decisions. It is better to get what looks like a really good product to market now instead of next year. 

  • Norm

    They promised Korean hookers for all Apple Execs free of charge.

    • Anonymous

      Lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Fuller/584626026 Mike Fuller

    Apple is threatened.. Samsung has makes the best lcd screens in the world.. Add the fact that they make most of the parts that are in many other other tablets and sell them as a profit gives them a price advantage with their own device productions costs.

    IF android was limited to only samsung and htc etc it would give them a much better chance of surpassing apple in the tablet and phone market.

  • Anonymous

    Should be pretty interesting to see how that all turns out lol.

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  • Anonymous

    crApple has now patented night and day.  Everyone will be made to pay.

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