Ban on Sale of Samsung Galaxy Smartphones in EU Set for October 13th

I swipe my butt after i go for a #2, should I be concerned?

Yeah, it's pretty pathetic that they're doing this. This is not good at all for the consumers - I actually wanted to buy a Galaxy S2.

This is totally anti-competitive behavior. I love your products Apple, but I'm really starting to hate you as a company.

Ok.

Looks like it's time for Samsung to up their game.

EDIT:

That's right, vote this comment down. The stark (and uncomfortable) reality is that Apple's case actually has merit.

Please no more patent wars!

I'm not certain that I understand the objection to protecting one's patents. If you invent something, whether or not everything thinks that it's great and, in hindsight, obvious, why should you not have the opportunity to get credit, income, and rights to your work?

If every invention and concept becomes eminent public domain, what incentive does anyone have to invent anything in a capitalist market economy? If Apple invents an iPad and then everyone hops onboard it's knockoff clone Andriod products and, by doing so, these clone companies devalue the iPad and it's creation, what incentive does Apple have, to pour money into whatever will replace the concept of the iPad? If what you want is an iPad, give your money to Apple who invented it. Not to the companies that have nakedly cloned it.

Furthermore, why wasn't this a problem with the iPod? Different companies came up with different competitive designs and had an equal opportunity to compete with Apple's innovative music and media device.

While there devices that resembled the iPod more closely than others, it would not be credible to claim that anyone copied the iPod as closely as the Galaxy-Andriod tablets infringe on Apple's iPad.

I support Apple's rights to protect their invention and the rewards reaped through their innovation.

Next in the news, iphone and ipad shortage due to "production issues" at samsung's chip fabs.

The solution for Apple's rivals (like Samsung) is to step up their game drastically. To shake up the industry. The old ways won't cut it anymore. Derivative devices just aren't enough because innovators like Apple *will* attempt to exercise their IP rights against those who are unable to differentiate themselves or who don't have strong first-mover status will suffer.

Samsung and everyone else had their chance to pull off a June 2007 or a January 2010 (why can't they do something similar? Why always Apple?) But the brand name attached to the iPhone and iPad is Apple, not Samsung.

Should we be concerned by this guy's photo library? If I'm not mistaken, we have a photo of two people strapped to the ground in the first photo, and an oncoming train in the second.

Well, creepy patent pics aside, I have to say this is getting pretty silly. How different is swiping left and right to scrolling up and down? Enough to award a patent and ban the sale of phones? Seriously??

The problem is the whole patents system. They grant patents on trivial things. This is the root of the problem.

They basically have a patent on natural moves (i.e. that's how you turn pages with a physical book) that should not have been granted in the first place.

This is as stupid as patenting that when I move my mouse left, the cursor on my screen goes to the left. :rolleyes:

Imagine having to know that when I'm on an Apple device, moving the mouse to the left moves the cursor to the left, but on Windows moving the mouse to the left moves the cursor to the top, etc. That is what's going to happen with all those patent wars. Different interfaces depending on which company made it. It's insane.

But right now, like it or not, there is a patent system. So if I were Apple, I'd patent all the "touch" moves so that nobody else can lock them away and then give free licenses to anyone who asks. No fees or minimum requirements, as long as you make the standard moves work in the way people would expect them to work.

That's how standards are made.

Please no more patent wars!

Typing this from a phone so please avoid any grammatical mistakes.

As I understand, Apple was trying to be a bitch when they sued Motorola for xoom. But all in all Samsung deserves to go down in this case. Not sure about the tab, but even that mimics the design and functionality of the ipad but that to me is mostly acceptable; may be not to Apple.

Samsung galaxy devices look very similar to the present and past iPhones. My cousin got a galaxy ace and truly, he himself claims it yo be an iPhone4 ripoff.

I am sad that the decision was based on a stupid patent rather than other design based claims by Apple
Now the trolls can queue and start calling people fanboys for defending Apple.