WEEK 5 EOC: Apple Vs Samsung patents

     As if Samsung hasn’t had a long enough already, they are about to add to their unsurprisingly bad luck with patents lately. They are now putting themselves in the path to losing yet another case, this one being the second one of the week. It came swiftly after a smart comment was made by Samsung in reply to Apples lawyer, William Lee who said “Apple spent five years and $5 billion dollars to make the iPhone" (Source) . Samsung’s response was they could copy easily within three months. Today it seems like everybody wants to get their hands on a patent, from something so simple and illogical. The fact that you can patent a multi touch function on a smart phone is just ridiculous. One of the biggest reasons the court keeps ruling in favor of apple, is the significant trend change. Before 2007 there was no such thing as a smart phone, now everything is trying to copy the iPhone.
     he recent case this week was said to be a huge one, “Apple will be granted a permanent injunction against Samsung over some if not all of the six patents and the trade dress a California jury found infringed almost a year ago” (Source)  Said a Patent law commentator Florian Mueller. I know a lot of these can be very complicated, but they have gone completely overboard. With the sheer amount of electronics coming from Samsung, it would have to be hard to keep track of absolutely everything each team does within the brand.

     People also believe a lot of this actually halted a bit of apples sales. “Apple had suffered lost sales, but what was missing was a casual nexus to those lost sales” (Source) . As long as they had evidence of this occurrence, then it would have been a substantially big factor in the courts decision, if not the only real reason why.