Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under

[wraggster]

"In the latest edition of the Apple vs. Samsung patent fight, the ABC is reporting that Samsung has filed in Australian and Japanese courts seeking an injunction to halt sales of the iPhone 4S (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-17/samsung-seeks-iphone-ban-in-australia/3575504) for alleged 3G patent violations. It remains to be seen whether Samsung has any better luck with the retaliatory strike in Australian and Japanese courts than it did with courts in the Netherlands (http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/0325220/dutch-court-rejects-samsung-patent-claims-against-apple). Unfortunately, I expect that Samsung will fail partly because of overseas precedent, but mostly because their patents are sane, technical and narrow in scope (unlike the patent-a-rectangle nature of the opposition). If this stupidity ever stops, then millions of dollars, euro, or Won that are being spent on lawyers might actually go into the innovation that patents are meant to promote. Who knows where that might lead?

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/0022233/samsung-vs-apple-tit-for-tat-down-under