A judge in The Hague just issued a ruling in Apple's patent infringement case against Samsung, prohibiting "the marketing of Samsung smartphones Galaxy S, S II and Ace for violation of Apple Inc. EP 2,058,868." In an official press release, the court explains that The Hague judge ruled to "ban trading of Samsung smartphones Galaxy S, S II and Ace," adding that Samsung also violated other Apple patents with its Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 10.1v, though it's not clear whether or not sales of those devices will be banned as well.    LINK

Not sure if its Europe or just the netherlands.

Apple, throwing bricks in a glass house ...

Too true. Eventually Motorola (Google), Samsung, and HTC will start sueing the shit out of Apple. They have far more patents and it would be relatively easy I am sure to find a dozen or more that Apple violates in their products.

Is Holland the new centre for patent lawsuits? LG did the same to Sony this year, exactly there.

Patent system is messed up.

Holland has Europe's largest harbor in Rotterdam. From there goods travel to other European countries (Germany for a large part). I suspect that's the reason

Also Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg have a common patent bureau. This is me just taking a guess, but if it means that sales are banned in Belgium as well then that would cut of Europe's second largest harbor is Antwerp.

^Plausible and very impressive.

Apple is also far less diversified then their competition and if there was an injunction against the iPod Touch, iPhone, and/or iPad Apple’s corporate revenue is hurt far more than a similar injunction would have on any of their competition. To make matters worse, the platform Apple is pushing is proprietary while their competition is pushing a more open/shared platform and the loss of one device on the ios platform will do far more damage to it than the loss of one device that supports the Android platform.

I found something here:

"Het is voor Samsung een gunstige uitspraak en je kan zeggen dat Apple juist het onderspit delft, doordat de rechtbank alleen het scrollen in de fotogalerij als inbreuk op de patenten ziet. Er is volgens de rechter geen sprake van inbreuk op de andere patenten, zoals die van het model van de iPhone. Samsung kan dit dus relatief eenvoudig oplossen door met een update van de app van de fotogalerij te komen. Naar verwachting kunnen de telefoons dus ook na half oktober gewoon worden verkocht."

It says that only the scrolling in the photogalery violates Apple patents and that Samsung can easily have this fixed, so that they can resume sales by half October. And they think Apple failed here.

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what CAN'T you patent?