PRODUCT LIABILITY

Apple's Product Liability against Samsung

[Name of Student]

Apple's Product Liability against Samsung

Apple's Product Safety Issue

Apple and Samsung are suing each other in so many different countries and in as many different grounds that it is becoming difficult to remember what they really disagree. In the United States, Apple won the battle. The victory in this case meant that the company may recover from Samsung on no less than 1,049,393,540 dollars. The reason is that Samsung was convicted on almost all points of the case against them, while Apple, for its part escaped Samsung recrimination. For that reason, Apple sued Samsung.

Discussion

Despite the magnitude of the case between Apple and Samsung that relates to product liability, the progress of the judicial process was quick and efficient. The jurors unanimously decided that Samsung infringed Apple's intellectual property, and because of that Samsung will have to pay $ 2.1 billion to the Apple.

The amount to be paid is less than the company requested the apple about $ 2.5 billion. In the same case, Samsung claimed that Apple is the one who had breached some of its patents. In this aspect, once again, no unanimity in favor of Apple as the jury found that none of the allegations had foundation and Samsung, because of that, the company founded by Steve Jobs will not need to pay anything.

However, despite the unanimity claimed by Apple a few points were not considered by the jury understood that, for case in point, that Samsung did not violate any antitrust law (unfair competition). In addition to this, two patents 516 and 941 3 GPP were not considered at trial, since Samsung has proved a deal with Intel to use them (Elias, 2012).

The grounds to the trial date back to the early models of the iphone and the early Galaxy Mobiles. According to Apple, Samsung has outright copied the design and some features of the software that was introduced by iOS. Even Galaxy Tab 10.1 is singled out as a copy of the ipad. Therefore, Apple sued Samsung for patent infringement on seven points, three that have the capabilities to do and four related design:

Patent # 7,469,381; the patent for “the bounceback effect”, which has to do with image and bounce back on the screen when drag it off the edge.

Patent # 7,844,915. The patent reflects the ability to scroll with one finger and zooming with two fingers.

Patent # 7,864,163 is the function that allows zooming by pressing twice quickly on an image or document.

Patent # D618 677 describes how the glass that extends from edge to edge, speaker placement and frames around the screen is Apple's design.

Patent # D593 087 is based on the rounded corners and a home button is also patented by Apple and can be found here.

Patent # D604 305 is the patent for the interface, specifically how icons are structured in the main menu of the IOS.

Patent # D504 889 is the last patent, which is related to ...