SAMSUNG will withdraw the requirement of non APPLE DEVICE SALES IN EUROPE
Samsung announced Tuesday the decision to remove from lawsuits pending in the courts of five European countries - Britain, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, statements with the requirement to take action to secure a claim in the form of a ban on the sale of products made in violation of copyright rights. However, Samsung said that the number of complaints about the violation of Apple#39;s patents it owns related to wireless telecommunications technology, it remains unchanged.
`Samsung continues to be a proponent of licensing our technology on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, and we firmly believe that it is much better when companies compete fairly in the market, not in court - said in a statement, the South Korean company. - Following this conviction, in protect consumer choice Samsung decided to remove the application to ban the sale of Apple products in connection with the violation of patents relating to the basic standards for the industry, pending in the courts of Europe `.
Statement by Samsung waiver to the ban on the sale of Apple products in violation of patents received due shortly after the announcement of the judge Lucy Koh (Lucy Koh), presiding at the trial Apple-Samsung, refusing to declare at the request of Apple preliminary injunction on sale in the U.S. 26 Samsung devices in connection with the violation of a number of patents relating to technology and design. Many experts believe this claim Apple is quite logical, since the above-mentioned devices appear in a lawsuit in which a verdict in her favor.
Samsung representative said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, that the decision to recall the requirements for interim measures was one-sided and `voluntary #39;. The company declined to comment on speculation reporters that the decision is the result of negotiations between Apple and Samsung outside the courtroom.
