This year there was a very significant court case that was settled and unless you were really purposely paying attention to it, the issues and the final result may have just not intruded into your consciousness. This case was the Apple versus Samsung lawsuit. The basic underpinning of this lawsuit is pretty straightforward, although as usual, it was more complicated than you might have expected.
Apple was the one that filed the lawsuit. The company alleged that Samsung had basically copied their smartphone designs and then sold them under their own brand. Further, they alleged that Samsung should no longer be able to manufacture or sell those particular phone models because they infringed on Apple's copyright and patents. There are a number of issues at stake as to what parts of the phones and tablets are exclusive to Apple, because of course no phone is developed in a vacuum and all that technology has developed over the years by various different companies in different ways.
The judgment and settlement of the lawsuit were handed down in the late summer and to some extent it will reverberate in the phone market for many years to come. The court basically agreed with Apple that Samsung had impinged on Apple's proprietary design of the rectangle with the rounded corners that Apple uses on their iPhone and iPad products in the competing Galaxy line of phones. In one case, the court even approved an injunction against one of Samsung's phone basically saying that that model could no longer be sold. However, that injunction at this point is no longer being enforced.
There have subsequently been some other revelations that have muddied the waters even further when it comes to differentiating the lines between the two products and what exactly they are arguing over. For example, according to one source, the foreman of the jury that awarded that victory to Apple already had a messy history with Samsung and there is some debate at this point as to when Apple realized that this man had these problems with Samsung and also some question as to why Samsung did not figure this out beforehand.
These issues are still very much in flux and decisions are still being made as to whether Samsung will be able to continue to make those particular phones and whether they will be able to sell them. Although this may not seem like a very interesting situation to you, no matter what phone brand you like it is almost certain to have long-reaching effects on the cell phone market for many years to come.
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