I'm flabbergasted. The ruling was clear that Apple had abused Samsung's patents, and an import ban was instituted on the iphone 4 and a few other models.
Apple is wrong in this, they lost their appeals, they lost the case. The decision should stand. Samsung offered to license the patents to Apple, and Apple consistently refused to pay, preferring to try to defend the case, or rather to sell millions of phones and make billions in profit while the wheels of the courts and committees sloooowly turned. The case went to the ITC, and Apple lost. And now the US Government has swooped in and vetoed the ruling, so Apple gets a free pass and is able to continue doing business as usual. What effect is this having on capitalism and the "free" market in general? If Apple takes a hit on these handsets then it would allow other manufacturers and developers to step in and fill the void. But this way, Apple maintains its position and nothing changes. A position that it got to in part by ignoring patents. If this would be "disruptive" to the US economy, what about the disruption that has already taken place because Apple was allowed to ignore these patents? Basically, Samsung is supposed to pursue Apple and obtain some sort of payout from Apple for their breach. The real value in this would have been taking the products off the market. Many small companies have been forced to close or been acquired because of patent disputes and challenges brought against them. Where was the Veto on their behalf when challenged by Patent troll lawyers or massive corporations? Why should ANY government now choose to hold its companies liable to the ITC, or any other standards committee if it goes against that company's best interests? If the US can simply move to protect it's own businesses and vetoes such rulings, then why should these standards bodies even exist? It seems that they exist only to benefit the United States against other foreign companies and countries in the world. Once rulings go against the US and appear to have a major effect, it either ignores it (WTO ruling on internet gambling, US vs Antigua) or the president can Veto it. It simply doesn't make much sense, and is little comfort, to state that the ruling was correct, but they just aren't going to go along with it. http://mashable.com/2013/08/03/apple-samsung-ban/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:366261 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
