Samsung sues Apple to ban iPhone 4S sales in Japan and Australia

By on Oct 17, 2011 at 4:11 PM
Legal October 17, 2011

Samsung sues Apple to block iPhone 4S sales

Samsung recently filed lawsuits in Japan and Australia in an attempt to prevent Apple from selling the iPhone 4S. In addition, Samsung is seeking to block the sale of the iPad 2 and the original iPhone 4 in Japan, Bloomberg said Monday. In September, the South Korea-based phone maker also filed motions to ban the iPhone 4S in France and Italy. “Apple has continued to violate our patent rights and free ride on our technology,” Samsung said. “We will no longer stand idly by and will steadfastly protect our intellectual property.” Apple filed similar lawsuits against Samsung in the United States, Australia, Japan, France and the Netherlands. The iPhone maker successfully prevented Samsung’s local subsidiaries from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia and the Galaxy S, Galaxy Ace and Galaxy S II in the Netherlands. Samsung recently announced that it will tweak its the aforementioned smartphones in an effort to dodge the European sales ban.

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  • Supermartin73

    This is getting awesome!

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      It’s like a movie almost.

    • Anonymous

      Desperate copycat is desperate … LOL

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        Obvious troll is obvious.

      • zacamandapio

        You’re beautiful.

    • Anonymous

      my friend’s step-aunt makes 70$/hour on the computer. She has been unemployed for 5 months but last month her pay was 7740$ just working on the computer for a few hours. Read about it on this web site MakeCash1.com

  • hui luo

    Samsung trying to make thing complicated than should be. anyway, Samsung has lost all the respects i used to have. i will never buy any products from him.
     

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      Samsung isn’t a person, and they are doing exactly what Apple did to them.

      • hui luo

        do you really think Samsung is doing reasonable suing? or just desperate

      • Anonymous

        So Apple was desperate when they sued to block the sales of the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tab?

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        I think they are doing exactly what was done to them. They are filing for devices to be banned based on their patents that Apple currently isn’t paying licensing fees for. I’d say they are in the right for suing based on that only. The patent in question for those who aren’t blindly supporting Apple is on 3G radios. Yeah, Samsung owns the patent on 3G radios.

      • Anonymous

        ANY company that is aligned with Google is ALWAYS right in the eyes of Goofans (aka Apple Haters) and Skinny Arms (@twitter-133878082:disqus ) is one of the top Goofans (aka Apple Haters) in our universe.

      • Anonymous

        @twitter-133878082:disqus The problem being that Apple doesn’t make 3G radios, but buys components whose manufacturers likely already pay a licensing fee to Samsung (if Samsung truly owns patents that are licensed industry-wide under FRAND), meaning Samsung is attempting to “double dip”.

      • Anonymous

        I think Samsung and Apple are playing a game with billions of dollars at stake.

        In the Apple environment, when you buy an iProduct, it locks you into iTunes, App Store, etc.  Apple makes money off your digital purchases. There’s A LOT of money to be made here. Blocking the import of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 impoves the sales of the iProducts.
        Samsung wants in on this action to get some of our cash.  They’re no better than Apple.  I think these lawsuits are stupid, on both sides.

        One can view Samsung’s lawsuits just as a legal actions as a defense against Apple.  If Samsung wins, both companies will heavily lobby the government to alter the patent laws so both products will eventually be available again.

      • Anonymous

        like google, samsung just a thief company, unfortunately fandroids always support criminals

      • Guest

        so if  someone slaps you , what do you do? turning the other cheek doesn’t work anymore

    • Supermartin73

      I am sure Samsung will moss your business. 

      • Supermartin73

        moss=miss

      • zacamandapio

        Randy=Moss?

    • Guest

      i doubt any one cares what you think

  • Anonymous

    Ban both Samsung and Apple products. Then we’ll get real patent reform!

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      What about Microsoft? They are just as bad as Apple if not worse when it comes to patents.

      • Anonymous

        You could include them too if you want.

      • zacamandapio

        You’re a jerk,
        You’re a jerk,
        You’re a jerk, jerk, jerk, jerky,
        Jerk, jerk, jerk, jerky.

  • http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

    Wow are they desperate.   I guess if all you do is copy others this is what you have to do to stay alive.

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      Stay alive? How blinded are you by your faith to the Church of Jobs? The SGSII has sold 30 million headsets since its launch, I don’t think they are hurting that bad. Pull your head out of your ass.

      • http://twitter.com/Glansburgs Steven Glansburg

        you are like Norm with your android fanaticism, but not funny

      • Anonymous

        You tell ‘em Skinny Arms.  We know that the right church, THE ONLY church, is the Church of Pages. Oooh, I like the sound of that!!!!!  

      • http://twitter.com/Metagnostic T

        No. The S and SII have sold 30 million total. Samsung is bragging they sold 3m SIIs in 55 days. How many 4Ss did Apple sell this weekend?

      • Anonymous

        Ummmm, that would be 4+ Million in 3 days!  A million more phones sold in 52 less days then the SII.

      • Anonymous

        Wow a whole 30 million, took quite a few months to hit that number.  You would think 30 million is a whole lot, but with thin profit margins, it’s not all that great.   The iphone 4S will sell far, far more then 30 million and do it in a shorter amount of time!

    • zacamandapio

      Aaaahhhhhh,
      I feel so alive,
      For the very first time,

  • broken monkey

    This love/hate relationship is giving me a headache. But they have made some beautiful babies together.

    • zacamandapio

      True.
      But you know how “divorce” is.

  • Anonymous

    By the beard of Zeus, this is getting preposterous. These companies have got to have something better to do.

    • Applesucksfatties

      I love the Anchorman reference….

  • Trdracer21

    NO MORE SUING FOR BOTH OF YOU SELL U RETARDS

    • zacamandapio

      I think it’s like advertising for them now.

  • Applesucksfatties

    I think toilet paper manufacturers worldwide should sue Apple too… to prevent that iTurd (aka i4S.. aka i3GS+ version 2) from being sold. 

    • Anonymous

      Yes, the 4S is just a re-tooled 3GS.

  • Anonymous

    “Siri, when this ban is iMposed will you still be able to perform your oRal duties down under?”

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps there should be a law where you can only ever be engaged in 3 lawsuits at any one time.

  • Anonymous

    For what?

    • Anonymous

      For yo’ ugly Mamma’!

  • Betelgeuse Orion

    instead of pissing away all your money to lawyers, why not.. oh i dunno, MAKE SOMETHING AWESOME?

  • Anonymous

    I think that Samsung is doing this poor show trying to elevate the pride, but it has lost almost all rounds, I don’t expect that Samsung gives up soon, but the later the worse for the korean pride, I hope koreans don’t do Seppuku like japaneses, somebody at Samsung will feel the iron cutting his/her throat.  Too much noise about patents and useless thing, it would be a lot cheaper for Samsung to admit it ripped off the iPad design and change the form factor and launch its galaxy whatever it called to the public, sammy is losing money and respet. Until now sammy hasn’t probe to be a good patent fighter, maybe Google will land a tree like it did with HTC.

  • Guest

    I say we ban it iphone globally . its a waste 

    • Cwitschy

      I say we ban you globally, your grammar is incomprehensible

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