So far Samsung has only succeeded in prevailing on three of its standard-essential patent assertions throughout the world, with two of these being in Korea, and one of these in the Netherlands. In the United Kingdom, Samsung is rapidly losing ground to Apple purely due to the sheer number of cases that they have been losing. Recently, Justice Floyd of the Chancery Division of the High Court of England and Wales ruled on three Samsung SEP assertions against Apple and declared all three patents invalid. Samsung has nowhere in the world yet where their patents are being upheld against Apple, and they recently failed in receiving an injunction on their 22nd standard essential patent assertion, meaning that Samsung is likely losing relative ground to Apple at this point.
Clearly we have already examined the patent war between Apple and Samsung several times, most every time citing that certain instances must be dealt with in certain ways that are not always universally applicable. Perhaps Apple has a legitimate claim, or perhaps it is simply heckling Samsung with needless litigation; regardless it seems that since Apple now has the upper hand against Samsung that Apple may eventually itself cause harm to Samsung as a company. As Samsung has already spent billions on litigation on Apple, in addition to receiving bad press for constantly losing cases to Apple, it seems that Samsung may eventually find it in their interests to end the patent war with Apple, to avoid any counterclaims that Apple may make, which could further worsen Samsung's position. I believe Apple has a substantial enough of a lead within the number of patent claim assertions successfully filed, in addition to to Apple's continued domination of Samsung within the courtroom. At what point, if any, will Samsung decide to cut its losses and begin to license its technology from Apple I wonder?
I agree with your statements. Samsung seems to be constantly losing it's battle with Apple, and has a chance of winning 1 out of 8 lawsuits it files against Apple. I agree that Samsung should maybe quite down their lawyers and possible focus more on their own products, since their patents wars are just hurting them
ReplyDeletegiven the number of lawsuits samsung is involved in, it's true that they might win a few, but what is the point when they are losing most of it? I agree with Alisha, perhaps they should focus on "other" innovation
ReplyDeleteIf I were Apple, on the litigation end I'd be happy, but as far as where the real technological innovation is coming, it really is Samsung. Their Galaxy phone series are continuing to convert iPhone users, and more people are beginning to realize the affordability and extensive features which their products have. Samsung will be on the up and up in my opinion.
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