The other day I told you that Apple intends to ask for a ban on the sale of the Samsung Galaxy S III in the US, submitting to a court a request by which he wants to include the Samsung terminal in a process already pending. Apple asked Samsung not to put the Galaxy S III on sale starting on June 21, the Koreans refused, and now the lawyers from Cupertino they threatened that they will introduce a request for a temporary restriction on the sales of the terminal if Samsung does not postpone the launch.
Josh Krevitt, a lawyer for Cupertino, California-based Apple, told Koh he was considering filing a request for a temporary restraining order in the interest of blocking sales of the Galaxy S III before its scheduled release in the US this month... Krevitt said a court order temporarily barring Galaxy S III sales in the US will create "a mechanism to allow the court to decide this issue before the launch."
Apple's request to include the Galaxy S III in an existing lawsuit will be judged only after June 21, and the company's lawyers have found a legal loophole through which they can "force" the court to rule on it faster. Of course, everything depends on the goodwill of those from Samsung and the arguments they will bring to defend themselves against the accusations of infringing Apple's patents, and if their defenses will not be sufficient, then in the US the Samsung Galaxy S III could be temporarily banned.
Those from Samsung said that Apple would not be able to compete with the new functions of the Galaxy S III, but the reality is that those functions are not innovative or extraordinary. The chances that Apple will obtain a ban on the sale of this product are small, but we will find out more in the following weeks.
