Korea Stop Selling Apple Products and Samsung. Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. to stop selling some smartphones and tablet computers in South Korea and to pay compensation after a Seoul court ruled they violated patents respectively.
Apple, maker of the iPhone, Samsung infringe two patents related to mobile-data transfer technology, the Seoul Central District Court said today. Samsung, the worlds largest mobile phone manufacturer, violating one Apple patent related to the bounce back touchscreen, though the Suwon, South Korea-based company is not copying the design of the iPhone, the court said.
Cupertino, California-based Apple to stop selling the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2 1, while Samsung must stop selling 12 products, including the Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab, the court said in a statement. Apple should pay Samsung 40 million won ($35,000), and the company had to pay U.S. rival Korea ₩ 25 million, the court said.
The decision is in line with what we expected, said Im Jeong Jae, a Seoul-based fund manager at Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management Co., which oversees about $29 billion, said by telephone today. The important thing is how to leave the decision in the U.S. will affect other patent cases in places like Europe and Australia.
Four Continents
Samsung did not have immediate comment on the ruling, Nam Ki Yung, a spokesman for the Seoul-based company, said by phone. Two phone calls to Steve Park, a spokesman for Seoul-based Apple, went to answer. Shares of Samsung fell 1.1 percent to 1.273 million won at 2:07 p.m. in Seoul trading.
Sales ban effective immediately, and the company may ask the court to cancel them. Samsung generated 39 percent of revenue in South Korea in the quarter ended June 30, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Apple, the most valuable companies in the world, collecting 23 percent of sales (AAPL) in the Asia-Pacific region over the same period.
These products all come out some time ago, so the real impact will not be great, said Kim Hyung Sik, a Seoul-based analyst at Taurus Investment Securities Co., said by phone. The U.S. case is an important one. Fact there will be a neutral verdict victory for Samsung.
California Experiment
Apple and Samsung (AAPL) has sued each other on four continents since April, recrimination copy, product design and technology, even as they are bound by a commercial deals involving the supply of components. At stake is dominance of the smartphone market, estimated by Bloomberg Industries worth $219 billion last year, in which Samsung and Apple are two of the worlds largest producer.
Samsung sued Apple in April 2011 in Seoul, Tokyo and Mannheim, Germany, said the iPhone maker infringed patents the South Korean firm. Apple responded by setting in June. Samsung filed a separate lawsuit in Seoul in March this year, because of a dispute expanded to countries including the United States, Britain and Australia.
The two companies began a jury trial in U.S. federal court in San Jose, California, on July 30 to try out Apples claims that Samsung copied the iPad and iPhone design and behind Samsung that it was the victim of patent infringement by U.S. competitors. This case is the first U.S. jury trial in the dispute.
In the last quarter, the South Korean company controlled 34.6 percent of the global smartphone market, followed by Apple with 17.8 percent, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics.
Competitors and Customers
In U.S. courts, Apple seeking $2.5 billion to $2.75 billion in damages for claims that Samsung violated patents and three patents four design software in copying the iPhone and iPad. Apple also wants to make permanent the ban early win on U.S. sales of the Samsung tablet computers and smartphones extend the ban to the South Korean firm.
Samsung is seeking as much as $421.8 million in royalties that the company claims it is owed for violation of two Apple patents covering mobile technology standards and three utility patents.
Lawyers for both companies to make closing arguments on August 21 ahead of jury deliberations.
Both parties have a legal victory. Apple won a court order blocking the U.S. on June 29 sale of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first smartphone that uses Google Inc. s Android operating system 4.0. Products remain on the market as Samsung appealed the order to the Federal Circuit.
In November, Samsung won a court battle in Australia that allows customers to buy rival Samsung for iPad.
Allegations of intellectual property in contrast with commercial ties that bind the two companies. Apples reliance on selling chips for cell phones and the Samsung tablet will be worth as much as $7.5 billion to Samsung this year, jumping 60 percent from 2011, according to estimates from Gartner Inc., an industry researcher based in Stamford, Connecticut.
Apple accounts for about 9 percent of Samsungs revenue, making it the largest enterprise customers, according to a Bloomberg analysis of supply-chain.
Cupertino, California-based Apple to stop selling the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2 1, while Samsung must stop selling 12 products, including the Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab, the court said in a statement. Apple should pay Samsung 40 million won ($35,000), and the company had to pay U.S. rival Korea ₩ 25 million, the court said.
The decision is in line with what we expected, said Im Jeong Jae, a Seoul-based fund manager at Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management Co., which oversees about $29 billion, said by telephone today. The important thing is how to leave the decision in the U.S. will affect other patent cases in places like Europe and Australia.
Four Continents
Samsung did not have immediate comment on the ruling, Nam Ki Yung, a spokesman for the Seoul-based company, said by phone. Two phone calls to Steve Park, a spokesman for Seoul-based Apple, went to answer. Shares of Samsung fell 1.1 percent to 1.273 million won at 2:07 p.m. in Seoul trading.
Sales ban effective immediately, and the company may ask the court to cancel them. Samsung generated 39 percent of revenue in South Korea in the quarter ended June 30, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Apple, the most valuable companies in the world, collecting 23 percent of sales (AAPL) in the Asia-Pacific region over the same period.
These products all come out some time ago, so the real impact will not be great, said Kim Hyung Sik, a Seoul-based analyst at Taurus Investment Securities Co., said by phone. The U.S. case is an important one. Fact there will be a neutral verdict victory for Samsung.
California Experiment
Apple and Samsung (AAPL) has sued each other on four continents since April, recrimination copy, product design and technology, even as they are bound by a commercial deals involving the supply of components. At stake is dominance of the smartphone market, estimated by Bloomberg Industries worth $219 billion last year, in which Samsung and Apple are two of the worlds largest producer.
Samsung sued Apple in April 2011 in Seoul, Tokyo and Mannheim, Germany, said the iPhone maker infringed patents the South Korean firm. Apple responded by setting in June. Samsung filed a separate lawsuit in Seoul in March this year, because of a dispute expanded to countries including the United States, Britain and Australia.
The two companies began a jury trial in U.S. federal court in San Jose, California, on July 30 to try out Apples claims that Samsung copied the iPad and iPhone design and behind Samsung that it was the victim of patent infringement by U.S. competitors. This case is the first U.S. jury trial in the dispute.
In the last quarter, the South Korean company controlled 34.6 percent of the global smartphone market, followed by Apple with 17.8 percent, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics.
Competitors and Customers
In U.S. courts, Apple seeking $2.5 billion to $2.75 billion in damages for claims that Samsung violated patents and three patents four design software in copying the iPhone and iPad. Apple also wants to make permanent the ban early win on U.S. sales of the Samsung tablet computers and smartphones extend the ban to the South Korean firm.
Samsung is seeking as much as $421.8 million in royalties that the company claims it is owed for violation of two Apple patents covering mobile technology standards and three utility patents.
Lawyers for both companies to make closing arguments on August 21 ahead of jury deliberations.
Both parties have a legal victory. Apple won a court order blocking the U.S. on June 29 sale of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first smartphone that uses Google Inc. s Android operating system 4.0. Products remain on the market as Samsung appealed the order to the Federal Circuit.
In November, Samsung won a court battle in Australia that allows customers to buy rival Samsung for iPad.
Allegations of intellectual property in contrast with commercial ties that bind the two companies. Apples reliance on selling chips for cell phones and the Samsung tablet will be worth as much as $7.5 billion to Samsung this year, jumping 60 percent from 2011, according to estimates from Gartner Inc., an industry researcher based in Stamford, Connecticut.
Apple accounts for about 9 percent of Samsungs revenue, making it the largest enterprise customers, according to a Bloomberg analysis of supply-chain.
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