In the USA, Apple managed to obtain the right to temporarily ban sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung appealed against this decision and did not win the case. An American court decided yesterday that the appeal made by Samsung does not have sufficient reasons to suspend the right of those from Apple to ban the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Following this decision, those from Google announced that they are already working on some changes to the Android OS in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus to remove the universal search system and thus avoid infringing Apple's patents.
A US judge on Tuesday rejected a request by Samsung Electronics Co. to lift a pre-trial injunction against sales of its Galaxy Nexus phone, another legal setback for the South Korean firm ahead of an upcoming court battle with Apple Inc..
Samsung and Google have a software patch that they believe avoids infringing the Apple patent that led to the injunction. That patch is expected to be pushed out imminently, Google said. The move follows a decision on Tuesday by District Court Judge Lucy Koh not to hold off while Samsung pursues its appeal of the ban. Koh ruled Friday that the Galaxy Nexus is likely to infringe on four Apple patents, but issued the injunction based specifically on a patent related to universal search.
While Google is preparing to release the update to the owners of Samsung Galaxy Nexus terminals, the device suddenly disappeared from the Google website and then returned with a new advertising material that said that the device will contain new software that will solve the problems identified by Apple. At the same time, Apple filed a bond of 96 million dollars to enforce the sales ban against the Galaxy Nexus, so there is a good chance that the device will be quickly taken off the market since the ban will soon take effect.
Yesterday Samsung lost the appeal against the decision to give Apple the right to ban the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US, today the same thing happened with the Galaxy Nexus, and things don't seem to be very good for the Koreans and Google.
