Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung

Apple still needs to run ads saying Samsung had not infringed its rights.

The US firm had previously been ordered to place a notice to that effect – with a link to the original judgement – on its website and place other adverts in the Daily Mail, Financial Times, T3 Magazine and other publications to “correct the damaging impression” that Samsung was a copycat.

via BBC News – Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung.

Apple declined to comment. It can still appeal to the UK Supreme Court, otherwise the ruling applies across the European Union.

The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers

I can tell just from the press shots, this thing is a Samsung lawyer’s dream. I’m sure you must be thinking,”Hmm, that’s a weird assumption to make.” but don’t worry, an explanation is forthcoming. We’re going to take a trip, way, way back to the prehistoric times of April 18, 2011: The day Apple claimed ownership of the rectangle.

via The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers.

Its Samsung Day! Congratulations Samsung for being world’s biggest handset maker, and biggest smartphone maker

So it was 14 years of Nokia leadership in the most widely used technology ever seen on the planet. At its peak, there was a quarter in 2006 that Nokia had 40% of the global market for phones, and there were years when Nokia was as big as rivals numbers 2 and 3 combined, there were quarters where Nokia was as big as rivals number 2, 3 and 4 combined. Nokia had spread to be in the pockets of 1.3 Billion people, 19% of the total population alive on the planet. No other technology ever, indeed no brand is used by as many people as Nokia. Not Sony Walkmans or TVs, not Microsoft on the PC, not Coca Cola in drinks, not Levi’s in blue jeans, not Bic in pens. But now that King has been toppled. The King is Dead, Long Live the King. Now Samsung will take over and build even a bigger footprint, as mobile phone handsets keep spreading to new first-time users in India, Africa, Latin America etc.

via Communities Dominate Brands: Its Samsung Day! Congratulations Samsung for being world’s biggest handset maker, and biggest smartphone maker.