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Uncategorized Friday, October 26th 2012 at 8:40 am

Apple Issues Absurdly Snide U.K. Acknowledgement That Samsung Didn’t Infringe on Their Patents

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The sniping between Apple and Samsung over whether the latter’s tablet infringes on the former’s patents is getting worse. Samsung came off as somewhat bitter after the initial U.S. verdict when they ran ads poking fun at the Apple Genius Bar. Apple has just escalated this feud to an entirely new level, however. See, the U.K. courts didn’t agree with Apple, and actually found that the Samsung Galaxy Tab didn’t infringe on their patents. Part of the ruling required Apple to issue an acknowledgement on their website, and they have. It’s probably not what the courts had in mind, though.

Essentially, the notice that the courts required from Apple is meant to inform customers on the U.K. version of the U.S. company’s website that Samsung actually didn’t infringe on their patents. This stems from the fact that the courts basically thought Apple had tarnished Samsung’s reputation by dragging their name through the mud with a messy patent lawsuit. These have often been referred to as “apology” ads, but the actual wording of Apple’s notice is anything but apologetic.

It actually starts off fairly tame, referencing the ruling made by the U.K. courts. That’s about all that can be categorized as such. The rest of the notice is as much of an attack on Samsung as Apple can wage while still remaining strictly within the boundaries of the ruling they were handed. They quote the judge from the trial with saying the simplicity and coolness of Apple’s design, when compared to Samsung’s, means that no patents were infringed.

It’s the final paragraph that makes it clear what Apple’s actually intending to get across with this notice:

However, in a case tried in Germany regarding the same patent, the court found that Samsung engaged in unfair competition by copying the iPad design. A U.S. jury also found Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple’s design and utility patents, awarding over one billion U.S. dollars in damages to Apple Inc. So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have recognized that in the course of creating its Galaxy tablet, Samsung willfully copied Apple’s far more popular iPad.

Tell us how you really feel, Apple.

(Apple via The Verge)

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  • k.

    Apple… annoys me.

  • Anonymous

    Good for Apple.

  • http://twitter.com/wonkydonky wonky donky.

    And the inbred idiocy of the UK and their generally whacked courts, (not to mention their nutty libel laws) is why so many left for better shores.

    Nice to see ‘Blighty keeping up its tradition of ‘driving down the wrong side of the road’.

    Maybe one day they’ll start considering people innocent until proven guilty or actually -write down- a Constitution or Bill of Rights,

    -but that’s probably too much to hope for.

  • Eudo

    Stupid hilbilly, Maybe one day your country will stop being so backwards and will get free healthcare and higher education and prohibit the sales of lethal weaponry, untill then shut up critisizing a country with one of the worlds most whole and just legal systems, your making a fool of yourself.

  • Enthusiast

    ‘Free’ health care? ‘Free’ college Are you really that naive? NOTHING is free. Your ‘free’ services are payed for (dearly) via taxes. If you don’t pay taxes, you’re walking on the backs of those who do. There’s nothing free about socialism.

    The ubiquity of lethal weaponry is why US citizens don’t go to jail for being mean on Facebook. Tell me what is just about that? If the state can regulate one type of speech, they can regulate all speech and that leads to loss of freedom.

  • Anonymous

    Just remember who kicked your ass in the Revolutionary war and War of 1812, then who saved your ass during WWII!!

  • Eudo

    The revolution I will give you but WWII we were helped by more by the Russians attacking from the east, and 1812 was a stalemate with the British navy causing such a drastic effect on your economy that they agreed to sign a treaty.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dustin.jiron Dustin Jiron

    Did ya hear about the iphone 6? or the 7? maybe the 8? no? Oh give em a few weeks…your stuff will be obsolete again soon enough.

  • Eudo

    Am I to understand that you don’t pay taxes or is it the fact that although your paying more you still are not getting any benefits from them, such as free health care and free higher education ?

  • Asreal

    I love when the US vs UK thing degenerates into who beat who or who helped who in the war. Were either of you even alive when your forefathers fought? Do you even know or CARE what they went through so you could bitch on some stupid forum!?

    This is a slightly more childish version of “my Dad’s better than your Dad”. Grow the fuck up.

  • Gaspode

    Awesome troll btw donky :)

    Especially from a nation who elected George Dubyah to lead the merkins lol :)

  • Jack Bond

    The idea that you believe healthcare can be free to anyone invalidates everything you can possibly say against another country and against another man. Thank you, good day.

  • Jack Bond

    Taxes are important in more balanced, less economically devastating venues. Health care is not among them. And for the record, America is already one foot over the line of socialism. That doesn’t make it good. Our people are suffering because of it.

  • Jack Bond

    It’s funny because Obama made the same mistakes as Bush, while amplifying them about 10 times.

  • Anonymous

    I can afford my own healthcare, because I have a job… And I prefer not to be responsible for a strangers well being should they choose not to work or take care of themselves. Does that seem reasonable to you?

  • Anonymous

    My two uncles served in WWII — one in the Island hopping campaigns, the other in Europe: DDay and beyond. My father served in the Korean War, I was in both Desert Storm and I served two tours in Iraq (2003 and 2004), so I think I know a bit about the ugliness of war —- thank you very much —- and experiencing the incoming fire, mortars, and IED’s give me a little bit of an idea what they went through back in the day!!!

  • Anonymous

    1812 was not what I would consider a draw. The British Navy was suppose to be something else, yet the young Nation of Yanks proved to be more than their equal. The War of 1812 — both in the Atlantic and on the Great Lakes pushed the British aggressors out of our waters and gave birth to what become a Navy ten time anything Great Britain ever imagined. As for WWII, I’m sure Churchill would have thought otherwise considering how many times he met with Roosevelt throughout the War. If the Americans had never put it on the line on D-Day I don’t think you would have seen a free Europe today, regardless of what the Russians and their scorched earth tactics realized.

  • Stealthnugget

    Mmm, to point out a few things: the British Navy helped establish the largest empire in history (a heritage that’s still noticeable today) and was the strongest nation for over a century during that time and they beat the vastly superior and more numerous Spanish Armada against all odds in 1588. During the revolution, the only reason the Royal Navy was defeated (note that the “Yanks” were utterly obliterated) when France, Spain and the Netherlands joined the fray – and it should be noted that the Dutch were on par or just a notch below the British in terms of seamanship. The War of 1812, which wasn’t even a large war, was confided to single-ship action and raiding of merchant ships – hardly the thing to give birth to “a Navy ten times greater”.

    Then we have the century following 1812 where nothing really happened, as the British were too powerful for anyone to really challenge them, and WWI where they proved invaluable in holding off and defeating the Germans and during WWII they did suffer some heavy losses, but in return, they utterly destroyed the German’s surface ships. Post wartime, the failing economy and decline of the British Empire took its toll and the Navy began to suffer. And now that this wall of history has been dealt with: @saxman657, historically speaking, the US Navy isn’t near the Royal Navy. With the massive leaps in technology that we’ve had since the mid 20th century till now, it is no surprise that the US has grown powerful and while I too acknowledge that the Americans helped turned the tide during WWII, you (and your country) far too often pat your own backs and think yourselves more important than you were. But in terms of current firepower, personnel and ships, YES, the US is the most powerful. But as you are so keen to forget history, so keen am I to bring it up.

  • Stealthnugget

    Apple’s acting really passive-aggressive. Go UK courts!

  • http://twitter.com/YourLocalGP George Preston

    When we say “free”, we mean “free at point of use”. We do realise that the people there are paid, and that it has a cost. The government will always refer to NHS as “free at point of use”.

  • Mongo23

    We don’t need socialist free health care or education. We use our national income (mostly borrowed) to invade third-world countries. We sometimes like to displace democratically elected governments to help US business. Now why would we want to trade that for health or education?