Apple, following a jury verdict that Samsung Electronics infringed three of its patents, is seeking a U.S. sales ban on some older models of the South Korean company’s smartphones.
Apple, which on May 2 won $120 million of the $2.2 billion it sought, identified nine devices it wants barred in a filing yesterday with U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California.
Winning a ban may prove difficult for Apple because Koh, who also presided over the companies’ first U.S. trial in 2012, twice rejected the iPhone-maker’s request in that case, legal experts have said. This time around, Samsung can also seek a ban because the jury concluded that Apple infringed one of its patents.
Apple’s bid “seems like a hard sell, given that it failed to achieve an injunction in the last trial with significant design patent infringement and similar feature patent infringement,” said Michael Risch, a law professor at Villanova University.
Apple, which has said that a sales ban is more important than monetary damages, has been waging legal battles with Samsung since 2011 across four continents. The world’s top two smartphone makers each seek to dominate a market that was valued at $338.2 billion last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Saturday, May 24, 2014
APPLE CONTINUES ITS CHARGE AGAINST THE KOREAN COMPANY SAMSUNG SINCE ITS OWN DEVELOPMENT HAS STYMIED AND ALL THE LIBERAL COMPANY CAN DO IS GO TO COURT TO GAIN FURTHER SALES FOR ITS PRODUCT–APPLE WANTS OLDER SAMSUNG SMARTPHONES TAKEN OUT OF PUBLIC SALES CAN WE SAY GREED – FROM THE WORLD’S $338 BILLION MARKET
Thursday, May 22, 2014
THE POTUS BHO GETS NOTHING FROM TREATHENING RUSSIA SINCE THEY CONTROL THE HUMAN TRANSPORT TO THE ISS–AS RUSSIA PUTIN DOES THE THREATENING HERE TO CLOSE DOWN THE ISS–AND THE POTUS CAN ONLY SHIMMY WITH NOTHING TO RESPOND SINCE HIS POLICIES OF FUNNELING TAX FUNDS FOR SPACE INSTEAD PROMOTES HIS ENVIRONMENTALS PROPAGANDA ON EARTH–THE POTUS ONLY OPTION IS TO BRING IN THE CHINESE TO TRANSPORT HUMANS TO THE ISS–NO HEADS WILL ROLL IN NASA FOR FOLLOWING THE POTUS AGENDA AND NO APOLOGIES FOR THE FAILURE IN SPACE
Friction between the United States and Russia over Ukraine won’t spell the end of the International Space Station, the head of NASA said Monday, dismissing concerns that one of the world’s most prestigious scientific endeavors could fall victim to political disagreement.
The comments by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden come a week after Russia warned that it could cease cooperating with the U.S. on the project after 2020. Although Japan, Europe and Canada are also members, all currently depend on Russian Soyuz capsules to take astronauts to the space station since NASA retired its shuttle fleet.
“There is no single partner that can terminate the international space station,” Bolden told reporters in Berlin, where he was attending the city’s annual air show.
Bolden said that the cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, on the International Space Station hadn’t changed “one iota” in recent years. The project has withstood the increasingly frosty atmosphere between Washington and Moscow that saw the U.S. impose sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
Still, Bolden indicated that if for one reason or other a country should drop out of the project, the others would seek to continue.
“There is no one partner that is indispensable on the International Space Station,” he said. NASA hopes that private companies such as Space X will be able to develop rockets and capsules to fly astronauts to the space station as early as 2017.
THE KOREAN WAR ( A CEASE FIRE ARMISTICE IN 1953 WITHOUT A PEACE ACCORD) CONTINUES AS BOTH SIDES EXCHANGE ARTILLERIES AS NORTH KOREA TRY’S ITS AIMING ON A PATROL SHIP IN YEONPYEONGDO ISLAND–THE SOUTH KOREANS WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED
At around 6:00 p.m., the North’s artillery shells dropped 14 km southwest of Yeonpyeongdo Island, close to a South Korean patrol ship operating in our waters,” the JCS said in a press release. “We directed all fishing boats in the area to return home and the residents to evacuate.”
The provocative move from Pyongyang came hours after the South Korean Navy’s Second Fleet issued a strong warning against a recent series of violations of the NLL, stressing that it would take an “unsparing” response to any provocations.
“The North must immediately stop any military, provocative threat in the West Sea aimed at nullifying the NLL,” the Second Fleet said in a press release.
On Tuesday, three North Korean military boats crossed the NLL and returned home after the South fired warning shots. The following day, the North’s southwestern military command berated Seoul for the warning shots, threatening to mount a military strike.
Pyongyang has persistently tried to invalidate the NLL, arguing that it was unilaterally drawn by the U.S.-led UN Command after the end of the 1950-53 Korean War. It argues that it should be drawn further south.
