For two years, from June 2010 through June 2012, Samsung sold 21.25 million phones. Its most popular model during that span? Not a Galaxy S II phone, not a Nexus phone but the not exactly vaunted… Samsung Galaxy Prevail on Boost Mobile. More »
Have a smartphone from Seoul or Cupertino riding in the pocket of your jeans? You aren’t the only one. New documents filed in Samsung and Apple’s ongoing legal battle reveal specific sales data going back several years, confirming something we always knew to be true: there are a lot of devices out there. Samsung’s filing reveals that it has sold 21.25 million “accused” phones and 1.4 million tablets from June 2010 to June of this year, and further breaks down the data by device and, in some cases, carrier. The Galaxy S II, for instance, takes the lion’s share of US sales with over 4.1 million units sold between all models and carriers. The Epic 4G makes an appearance at 1.89 million sold, and the Captivate totals in at 1.39 million. Finally, the Samsung Prevail lives up to its moniker by netting 2.25 million in sales, lagging only behind the Galaxy S II — though its $180 asking price brought in significantly less revenue per unit.
Apple’s charts are a bit less specific, detailing the total sales of its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch lines rather than the sales of each specific hardware iteration — though where it falters in detail it makes up in numbers. U.S. consumers have snatched up 85 million iPhones since 2007, alongside 34 million iPads and 46 million iPod touch devices — bringing in almost $80 billion in revenue, collectively. Puts those quarterly reports into perspective, doesn’t it? Check out both charts in full at the source link below.
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Apple, Samsung reveal sales data to the court, boast of millions served originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
As much as Apple would love for Kwon Oh-hyun to turn up at court and tearfully confess to being a copycat, that’s probably not going to happen. Instead, Cupertino’s lawyers are burrowing through Samsung’s history in search of a legal smoking gun, and one of their latest submissions has been presented as just that. It’s a 132-page document written in 2010 by Sammy engineers that directly compares the iPhone against the Galaxy S and makes recommendations about how the latter should be more like the former. The excerpt shown above, which focuses on the aesthetics of icons on the rival handsets, even appears to contain advice about how Samsung should copy Apple without appearing to copy them so much, whereas the full document embedded after the break reveals how all-encompassing the internal guidance was. On the flip-side, Samsung may well argue that any responsible company should compare itself to its competition in this manner, and you can bet there’s an army of lawyers beavering away right now to make that sound convincing.
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Apple seizes on Samsung internal document as proof of mimicry originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
A federal appeals court has ruled today that the US government can tap into Americans’ communications without worrying over frivolous things like “being sued” by its people. In what most sane civilians will probably see as a depressing loss of protection, a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that citizens can sue the United States for damages stemming from the use of information collected via wiretap, but not for the collection of information itself. In typical pass-the-buck fashion, Wired reports that Judge Michael Daly Hawkins and Judge Harry Pregerson added the following: “Although such a structure may seem anomalous and even unfair, the policy judgment is one for Congress, not the courts.” Alrighty. For those unaware, the back and forth surrounding this issue extends back to Congress’ authorization of the Bush spy program in 2008, and more specifically, a pair of US lawyers and the now-defunct al-Haramain Islamic Foundation — a group that was granted over $2.5 million combined in legal fees after proving that they were spied on sans warrants. The full report can be found in the PDF below.
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Federal appeals court says warrantless wiretapping is legal originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Thank goodness for common sense. Paul Chambers, the man who joked he would blow-up an airport if it didn’t get its act together and actually work properly, has been cleared of his conviction from back in 2010 by the High Court in London. Obvious-Twitter-joking can now recommence. More »
Apple and Samsung are gearing up for one of their largest legal battles to date, which centers around their devices looking incredibly similar. But before things can start, they still need to agree on where to sit in court—which is proving more complicated than you might expect. More »
Another day, another Apple-Samsung death match. This time, Apple has succeeded in banning the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 across the entirety of Europe, because it was found to have infringed on Apple drawings that date back to 2004. More »
Word around the mulberry bush is that Apple has just won itself a Europe-wide injunction against the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, in case anyone still wanted to buy that tablet now that the Nexus 7 is out. The decision was taken in-between beer courses at the appeals court in Dusseldorf, but it didn’t all go Apple’s way — Cupertino’s request to have the re-designed Galaxy Tab 10.1 (aka the 10.1N) banned too was rejected, having already been turned down at preliminary hearing back in February.
The Tab 7.7 apparently infringes Apple patents that date from 2004 and, such is the power of one little German town, cannot technically be sold anywhere in the EU — although other countries may choose to ignore the ruling and it’s probably only a matter of time before a 7.7N comes out anyway. In contrast, the failed claim against the 10-inch slate hinged on a “generic design patent,” which a British judge has also vehemently dismissed. Glossing over the 7.7 decision, Samsung says it “welcomes the court’s ruling” with regard to the 10.1N and accuses Apple of using “legal claims” to restrict “design innovation and progress in the industry.”
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Apple wins ‘EU-wide’ injunction against Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, denied on 10.1 ban originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Guess who hasn’t yet gotten its share of Proview’s recently acquired $60 million? Ironically, it’s the lawyers that helped it win the iPad trademark dispute in China. According to Sina Tech, Grandall Law Firm confirmed that its shady client refused to pay up the promised 4 percent of Apple’s settlement fee, which equates to $2.4 million. While acknowledging their contractual arrangement (wherein the law firm covers the legal fees in advance, and then expect the client to pay up after winning the case), Proview founder Yang Rongshan told Sina Tech that Grandall’s behavior is “nonsense,” and that his company isn’t obliged to pay back immediately as it isn’t under normal operation right now. However, Yang promises Proview won’t “pass the buck.” We shall see about that — maybe he could spend some yuans on buying Grandall a few new iPads, at least.
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Proview sued by its iPad court case law firm, owes at least 2.4 million dollars in legal fees originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple is being forced by a British judge to state explicitly that Samsung didn’t copy its iPad design. According to Bloomberg, Judge Colin Birss said that Apple has to post a notice both on its website and several British newspapers and magazines, to help correct the “damaging impression the South Korea-based company was copying Apple’s product.” The online part will reportedly stay there for six months. Apple lost its case against Samsung in the UK earlier this month, with the same judge awkwardly branding the 10-inch Android tablet “not as cool” as the iPad.
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UK judge forces Apple to state on its site that Samsung didn’t copy the iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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