Week Four: The 'Ridiculous' Patent War

"Why on earth are these proceedings (Apple v.s Samsung) going ahead? It's just ridiculous"

This is said by the Australian judge on the continue patent war between Apple and Samsung. This week in class we learned about patents protection for innovators. Patents is give to the inventors for their work to prevent other people to copy their work. But is it abusive when two parties kept suing each other using the patent law in public to prevent the other party from selling their products? The Australian judge think it is because Apple and Samsung keep suing each other in public court when they can settle on their own.

Apple and Samsung have the biggest market share in the tablet market. They do this because they want to take each other’s market share. Samsung’s Galaxy 10.1 tablet is already banned in America but it fail in United Kingdom. Samsung is already losing hundreds millions dollars because of the ban in America and so they want to try and ban Apple’s products in other countries as well. The fight keeps will not stop because technology advance so fast and there will be more new inventions created by both companies and they will still sue each other copying each other’s work. The irony is Samsung is the largest supplier to Apple but they still fight each other for patent rights.

Soon, the war will be joined by Microsoft. Microsoft is also going to be releasing their new tablet as well this year. Patent law is good to protect inventions but what happens when people abuse it? What can they do different?

Reference
BrisbaneTimes (2012). "Samsung, Apple dispute 'ridiculous', judge says". Retrieved on August 3rd 2012 from, <http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/world-business/samsung-apple-dispute-ridiculous-judge-says-20120723-22jnq.html>

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http://www.androidguys.com/2012/06/13/apples-request-for-early-injunction-against-samsung-denied-galaxy-s-ii-will-launch-on-time/apple-vs-samsung/