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三星很想在本月就举行苹果的专利侵权听证会,不然它的平板发布变得毫无意义
三星的平板Galaxy Tab 10.1上个月被苹果起诉侵犯其专利。三星为此推迟平板发布两次
现在恰逢圣诞节前购物旺季,如果三星的案子拖延的话,会使其平板销售变得毫无商业价值
三星很想求苹果和解,以使其平板可以赶上销售旺季
苹果昨天果断拒绝了三星的和解要求,说如果和解就使起诉失去了战略意义,那样三星就会在市场上"有蛋糕吃"
Do-or-die battle for Galaxy Tab 10.1
October 5, 2011
Lawyers for Samsung have revealed the company's dire need to hold an expedited, slimmed-down version of a final hearing in its patent battle with Apple this month, saying that delays would likely render the tablet unviable in the Australian market.
Apple brought the case against Samsung last month, saying that the company's Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringed on its patents. As a gesture of good faith, Samsung delayed the device launch of its own volition twice until legal proceedings could be solved.
However, Samsung's lawyers told the court yesterday that it would not be in a position to take on Apple in a full hearing of the case until at least March 2012.
They told Justice Annabelle Bennett that a delay in proceedings or an interlocutory injunction slapped on the device that lasts any longer than mid October would render the release of the device near pointless in the Australian market, although it wouldn't say if it would walk away from a launch of the device entirely.
"If we miss the Christmas sales period, the commercial value of the [Tab 10.1] will disappear," Samsung's legal counsel told the court yesterday.
It has therefore continued to push for a deal with Apple, which would see the parties face each other within 10 weeks in a slimmed-down version of the case that looks at a smaller number of patents, in return for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 launch being allowed to proceed in the interim.
Apple yesterday said that it had rejected Samsung's initial deal, saying that it defeated the purpose of the entire legal proceeding and allowed Samsung to "have its cake and eat it too".
"Our letter in response said that we don't accept the terms [of the deal]. The whole reason we're here is to prevent the launch and maintain the status quo," Apple counsel Steven Burley said.
There will be further interlocutory hearings to try to decide the matter.
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