Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung

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We recently discussed news (http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/10/18/1252210/in-uk-apple-must-run-ad-apologizing-to-samsung) of a UK court ruling in which the judge decided Apple must publicly acknowledge that Samsung's Galaxy Tab did not infringe upon the iPad's design, both on the Apple website and in several publications. The acknowledgement has now been posted (http://www.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/), and it's anything but apologetic (http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/26/apple-publishes-non-apology-to-samsung-on-its-website-to-comply-with-u-k-court-ruling/). It states the court's ruling, helpfully referring to "Apple's registered design No. 000018607-0001," and quotes the judges words as an advertisement. The judge wrote, "The informed user's overall impression of each of the Samsung Galaxy Tablets is the following. From the front they belong to the family which includes the Apple design; but the Samsung products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool." They go on to mention German and U.S. cases which found in Apple's favor. Apple's statement concludes, "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."

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/10/26/1325251/apple-posts-non-apology-to-samsung