Apple Seeks U.S. Sales Ban on Eight Samsung Devices .

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: WSJ

Days after winning a $1.05 billion jury verdict against Samsung Electronics Co., 005930.SE -7.45%Apple Inc. AAPL +1.88%moved to block the sale of Samsung devices found to infringe its patents.

In a filing Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Apple said it is seeking a preliminary injunction against eight Samsung products, including versions of its Galaxy and Droid smartphones.

Apple, of Cupertino, Calif., said it reserves the rights to pursue permanent injunctions banning the sale of all 28 devices that the jury on Friday found to violate Apple's intellectual property. But Apple offered, in response to an order by Judge Lucy Koh, what it called a "tailored" list of Samsung products "to address a portion of the immediate, ongoing irreparable harm that Apple is suffering," according to the filing.

While the devices aren't Samsung's latest products, many are still available through wireless carriers and online retailers such as Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.74%
Samsung officials have already begun to talk to wireless carriers about removing or modifying infringing features to keep products on the market if the injunctions are granted, according to a person familiar with the matter. One of the most important devices in the scenario planning is the Galaxy S II smartphone, which was found to infringe patents related to the design of the phone and some involving software features.



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What a way to manipulate the prices of those devices, shutting down other suppliers.

[AnnieBW]

1. Great. I own a Samsung smartphone and Galaxy 10.1 tablet

I really like both of them. In fact, we're thinking of getting a second tab before they get pulled off the shelves. I didn't like Apple's walled garden approach before, and now I really don't like them stomping on their competition.

[Initech]

12. Yeah I'm thinking of getting one too. I really like my SII.

[Kolesar]

2. Samsung has been dumping refrigerators in the US to take market share from Whirlpool and Electrolux

There have been trade complaints filed against them and "LG". I refuse to patronize those creeps.

[defacto7]

7. unfortunately..

if you buy Apple products, you are using Samsung. Samsung makes the screens and the integrated circuits for Apple products. Kind of an irony. None of Apple's software or hardware are products of Apple. They just combine a bunch of other companies stuff or steal free intellectual property.

[cliffordu]

10. Lol.

[frylock]

3. ongoing irreparable harm that apple is suffering..

we should all be so fortunate as to suffer as irrepably as poor, poor apple.

[d_r]

4. apple invented the rectangle

[fascisthunter]

5. we'll? Is it Legit or not?

Helllloooooo.... this happens all the time with many companies, but the reason you are hearing about this is because it is about Apple, and it is a blockbuster case!

[mbperrin]

6. Can't outcompete them? Sue!

Might work short term, but sooner or later, the failure to satisfy price and quality demanded by consumers leads only to oblivion. Never have understood why Apple folks are willing to overpay so grossly for electronics.

[defacto7]

8. hear, hear.

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especially if the software is free!

[dipsydoodle]

9. Samsung based their prices on Apple's

which were what the market would bear but pitched lower. The outcome of that was in doing so it yielded Samsung a net
profit in excess of c. 35%. As such Samsung could slaughter Apple's price should they chose to do so. It is in fact anticipated that will be the actual outcome with the beneficiaries being consumers.

[mbperrin]

11. I agree. Really no reason why anyone should ever have to buy a phone when you take a contract

for service.