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????這是一次典型的以牙還牙：上周五，三星（Samsung）宣布已在韓國、日本和德國對蘋果（Apple）提起專利侵權訴訟。 ????一周前，蘋果在加州聯邦法院起訴三星，稱其侵犯了自己一系列知識產權。蘋果在訴狀中表示，三星的銀河（Galaxy）智能手機和平板電腦一直在全盤照抄iPhone和iPad的外觀、觸感，甚至連包裝也不放過。 ????從好幾個層面來看，這場法庭大戰頗為諷刺。 ????蘋果的真正目標是谷歌（Google），后者的Android操作系統很大程度上都是基于蘋果的軟件開發工作。但蘋果并未選擇與谷歌直接交鋒，而是將矛頭對準部分Android手機制造商。這些廠商的產品在一些市場已經超過iPhone，而谷歌自己并未從Android銷售中獲利。 ????《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal）報道，三星董事長李健熙（Lee Kun-hee）上周四向記者表示：“[蘋果]這是槍打出頭鳥。” ????不過，三星和蘋果仍在繼續進行大量商業合作。 ????蘋果首席運營官蒂姆?庫克表示，去年，蘋果從三星采購了價值近60億美元的零部件，是三星最大的一個客戶。但對于銀河產品，庫克周三向分析師表示，“我們覺得三星的移動通信部門已經越界，關于此事我們已花了不少時間，現在我們決定對簿公堂。” ????三星并未直接反駁蘋果的訴訟，而是選擇從其它方面回擊。三星發言人表示，蘋果侵犯了三星在移動通信技術領域的一系列專利。具體如下： ????? 數據傳送優化技術 ????? 數據傳送中的節電技術 ????? 減少數據傳送錯誤的3G技術 ????? 一種手機與PC機之間的網絡共享方法 ????applepatent的帕特里克?伊格表示，上周五三星的股價下跌了2.6%，股東價值大約縮水36億美元。伊格上周五在博客中表示：“我認為三星的內存、固態硬盤（SSD）、顯示器和處理器部門并不愿意看到這次訴訟升級。” ????譯者：項航 |
????In a classic legal tit-for-tat, Samsung announced Friday that it had filed patent infringement suits against Apple (AAPL) in South Korea, Japan and Germany. ????A week earlier it had been sued by Apple in a California federal court for violating a broad range of Apple's intellectual property rights. According to that suit, Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets have been "slavishly" copying the look, feel and even the packaging of the iPhone and iPad. ????The legal battle is ironic on several levels. ????Apple's beef is really with Google (GOOG), which makes the Android operating system that owes so much to Apple's software development work. But rather than pursue Google, which earns no money from the sale of Android, Apple has been pursuing manufacturers of the Android phones that have, in some markets, overtaken the iPhone. ????"When a nail sticks out, [people] try to pound it down," Samsung's chairman Lee Kun-hee told reporters Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal. ????Meanwhile, Samsung and Apple continue to do a lot of business together. ????Apple bought nearly $6 billion worth of Samsung components last year, and according to COO Tim Cook, it is Samsung's single largest customer. But with the Galaxy products, he told analysts on Wednesday, "we felt the mobile communication division of Samsung had crossed the line, and after trying for some time to work the issue, we decided we needed to rely on the courts." ????Rather than answer Apple's charges directly, Samsung's suits change the subject. According to a company spokesman they allege that Apple infringed on a series of Samsung patents covering mobile communications technology. Specifically: ????? Technology to optimize data transmission ????? Techniques for reducing power usage during data transmission ????? 3G technology for reducing data-transmission errors ????? A method of tethering a mobile phone to a PC ????Samsung shares dropped 2.6% Friday, representing roughly $3.6 billion in shareholder value, according to applepatent's Patrick Igoe. "I have to imagine," he wrote Friday, "there are people in Samsung's memory, SSD, display, and processor businesses who are not thrilled to see this escalate." |
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