August 24, 2011 By

Samsung Galaxy Handsets Banned in Europe, Thanks Again To Apple

There’s nothing like an Apple lawsuit to rain on your parade.

Only this morning did Samsung reveal new Galaxy devices and the means by which it names them. Lo and behold there’s news of another Apple lawsuit waiting in the background to quash the excitement.

As a result of a ruling in the Netherlands from The Hague, the Samsung Galaxy S, S II and Ace will be banned in Europe from October 13th onwards. We’re not sure what affect (if any) this will have on our position to sell the Samsung handsets – if the situation with the Tab 10.1 is anything to go by, the ruling could be overturned before it comes into effect.

At the moment it looks like the patents that Samsung is cited as infringing include the “method of scrolling” and “recording a flag in connection with multiple screen taps”, which supposedly relates to dragging a slider to unlock the phone.

We’ll keep you posted with any updates relating to SGS2 availability.

Via Engadget

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Comments

  1. Ian says:
    August 24, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    There seems to be a bit of analysis and revision going on over at Engadget, but the consensus seems to be that the only violation upheld was in the Gallery program, which hopefully would be fairly easy for Samsung to update in the seven weeks before the ban kicks in, so fingers crossed, it’s as-you-were. The judge did rule against a couple of other patents Apple was whining about such as slide-to-unlock, so it’s not a bad outcome for Samsung.

    • Clove says:
      August 24, 2011 at 4:18 pm

      Thanks for the update Ian. All these failing patent lawsuits seem a bit desperate. Apple starting to see Android more and more as a threat?

      • Ian says:
        August 24, 2011 at 5:25 pm

        Let’s hope so; if they spent more money on engineers and innovation than lawyers, maybe they could have kept ahead of Android this year rather than having to resort to this kind of behaviour to stifle the competition. As simple and stable as ios is, devices like the Transformer, Flyer and the GS2 are just more fun and configurable to use.

        • Clove says:
          August 25, 2011 at 10:47 am

          Yea exactly, it’s only so long before having such a closed off system comes back to haunt them. Things will no doubt change as Steve Jobs’ involvement diminishes.

  2. Mike Paterson says:
    August 24, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    and I bet they are keeping quiet about using the Android Notification in their next Apple version.

    Mike

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