«Samsung no nos copió», la sentencia colgada en la web de Apple UK

Si os acordáis de «el juicio del verano» donde Apple y Samsung se vieron las caras para determinar si una había copiado a la otra a la hora de hacer sus tablets y teléfonos, el juez Colin Briss sentenció a la compañía de Cupertino a admitir públicamente que Samsung no les había copiado ya que, según el propio juez, «Los tablets de Samsung no molan tanto«.

En la web de Reino Unido Apple ya ha colgado una nota sobre la resolución del juicio, aunque con algunos matices. En ningún momento Apple dice directamente que Samsung no les intentó copiar el diseño del iPad sino que hacen referencias a las palabras del juez Briss.

Samsung / Apple UK judgment
On 9th July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that Samsung Electronic (UK) Limited’s Galaxy Tablet Computer, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 8.9 and Tab 7.7 do not infringe Apple’s registered design No. 0000181607-0001. A copy of the full judgment of the High court is available on the following link www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2012/1882.html.

In the ruling, the judge made several important points comparing the designs of the Apple and Samsung products:

“The extreme simplicity of the Apple design is striking. Overall it has undecorated flat surfaces with a plate of glass on the front all the way out to a very thin rim and a blank back. There is a crisp edge around the rim and a combination of curves, both at the corners and the sides. The design looks like an object the informed user would want to pick up and hold. It is an understated, smooth and simple product. It is a cool design.”

“The informed user’s overall impression of each of the Samsung Galaxy Tablets is the following. From the front they belong to the family which includes the Apple design; but the Samsung products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool.”

That Judgment has effect throughout the European Union and was upheld by the Court of Appeal on 18 October 2012. A copy of the Court of Appeal’s judgment is available on the following link www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html. There is no injunction in respect of the registered design in force anywhere in Europe.

However, in a case tried in Germany regarding the same patent, the court found that Samsung engaged in unfair competition by copying the iPad design. A U.S. jury also found Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple’s design and utility patents, awarding over one billion U.S. dollars in damages to Apple Inc. So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have recognized that in the course of creating its Galaxy tablet, Samsung willfully copied Apple’s far more popular iPad.

Para rizar el rizo, Apple ha aprovechado la ocasión para hacer referencias a los halagos que el juez comentó respecto a la extrema simplicidad de sus productos, «un producto que el usuario le gusta mantener entre sus manos«, y comenta de pasada las sentencias de Estados Unidos y Alemania.

En los Estados Unidos declararon que la marca coreana había cometido una violación de varias patentes de diseño y funcionalidades. En el caso de Alemania el juez dictaminó que Samsung realizaba competencia desleal al copiar el diseño del iPad.

Como veis, Apple siempre aprovecha las situaciones para dar sus puntilladas de color características y en este caso ha aprovechado el asunto para jugar con la ironía.

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