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Samsung Trumps Apple, For Now

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Samsung claims a Germany court has blocked Apple’s request to stop the sales of the South Korean company’s tablets and smartphones in the European nation. The action is part of a wrestling match between the two companies that has spanned the globe. Similar court cases have taken place in Australia and are bound to move to larger market like the US. The wars are over patents and intellectual property, and involve a broad group of companies which include Microsoft, Google, Apple, and even crippled Eastman Kodak.

Germany and Australia only represents the early stages of legal rivalries which will go one for years.

According to the WSJ

Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that the Munich Regional Court has rejected Apple Inc.’s request to ban sales in Germany of the Korean company’s tablet computers and Nexus smartphones.

Apple filed the preliminary injunction request in November last year seeking to ban sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, saying that the electronics maker had infringed upon patents owned by the iPhone maker.

 

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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