Samsung adds four more complaints to its German patent offensive against Apple

Move along. Nothing to see here.

Looks like their using the same strategy with their Patent suits as they do with their Tablets. “Throw as much shit to the wall and pray to god something sticks.”

While many of Samsung’s products may look similar to Apple products in pictures in real life they are completely different. They look much more plasticky and dull in real life compared to the Apple gear. So these design copy issues are relevant for people who buy Tablets and phones by looking at pictures.

In the case of smartphones Samsung is definitely cashing in on what I consider to be Apple’s blunder of not releasing an iphone with a 4 inch screen – even the current design with a 4 inch screen or better yet a 4.3 inch screen with LTE and a larger battery would have sufficed. Apple made a huge mistake as far as the smartphone market goes that more than anything to do with Samsung copying Apple design made the difference.

But Samsung has used their Apple design elements as being a Apple alternative and that’s why the rest of the Android competitors should hate Samsung more than Apple does – Apple has only themselves to blame, HTC, Motorola and others have Samsung getting away with copying Apple design to blame.

Samsung is just as bad as Apple in this area. The lawyers are making da money which otherwise should be going to tech. This legal crap now has it’s own momentum and the lawyers are pushing it. It’s what they do and all they know.

I’m going to throw this out there. The Apple v Samsung battles or the Apple v Motorola battles or the Apple v HTC battles have never been about Apple against those companies. It’s all about establishing the legal precedent they need to ensure an Apple v Google win. They could go after them at any time, but by establishing these cases in their favor they’re attempting to stack the deck in their favor when they finally go “thermonuclear” against Google itself for willful patent infringement. Precedent is legal gold. Both companies have enough money to sit in a protracted legal battle. Apple wants an injunction against all Android OS. In order to do that they have to establish that core features of the OS infringe on valid Apple patents. Google could challenge these patents and draw the battle out, but by having them pre-tested in court Apple doesn’t have to prove the validity of these patents because of the legal precedent already set. The burden of proof then shifts solely to Google to prove that their OS doesn’t infringe on valid patents and proving a negative is very difficult to do. This is especially true when the difference is technical in nature rather than visual. Most people don’t understand highly technical things, they go by whether or not it looks like it’s doing the same thing in the same way.

Apple needs to do this if they want to shut down Android because there are too many manufactures with Android devices to throttle them off one by one.