Unsurprisingly, Samsung today filed an appeal for Apple’s injunction banning sales of the Galaxy Nexus in the US. Samsung is arguing that the ban “is inconsistent with the Federal Circuit’s directive that market share losses must be substantial”. The preliminary injunction, handed out by Judge Lucy Koh, is based on the “Siri patent”, which is a patent on unified search that Koh believes the Galaxy Nexus infringes. Samsung must be getting used to these appeals as it also recently appealed a similar injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which is also now banned from store shelves.
There’s still a good chance the Federal Circuit will stay the injunction for the Galaxy Nexus, allowing sales to continue. If not, then Sammy (or maybe even Google since the phone runs stock Android) will have to come up with a software workaround, similar to what HTC had to do to get past the injunction on their One X series of phones.
Are we having fun yet with these lawsuits? I didn’t think my disdain for Apple could get any worse, but they keep proving me wrong.
source: foss patents