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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
Thats my point (in the edited post) -- they are developing a string of negative court victories. They can declare 'win!' all they want, but they have to know that they are 0-3 in the legal systems of the world -- and that their strategy of 'copy whatever Apple makes' is now on the ropes.
They are not going to keep copying Apple if the judges around the world keep ruling against them. All Apple needs is for one violation to be found and their import chain and their engineering teams are off to the races to make changes.
The cost of victory to profit ratio is going to swing against them.
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The judge didn't appear to uphold your opinion that Samsung had a "strategy" of "copying whatever Apple makes", and it doesn't look like the ruling on the photo gallery is going to cause significant problems to Samsung:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25098/Ap...gainst_Samsung
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Only this one patent is violated - the complaints about two other patents as well as the design patents has been thrown out. In other words, the judge did not agree with Apple that Samsung is copying Apple's design. The injunction only covers the Galaxy smartphones, since they run Android 2.x; Android 3.0 does not violate the patent in question, and hence, sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 can continue. In fact, only the Gallery application violates the patent in question, and Samsung has already stated it is going to replace this application on all new Galaxy smartphones from now on - sales won't even be interrupted. In other words - two patents thrown out, design stuff rejected, and only one patent complaint upheld which will cause no harm to Samsung. Apple just scored a meaningless victory. The Dutch court order is here. The pictures speak thousands of words.
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Graham