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????上周五晚，三星公司（Samsung）的律師在加里福尼亞州聯邦法庭（California federal court）做出驚人之舉：申請加急透露文件，要求“蘋果出示下一代iPhone和iPad的樣品”。這是蘋果（Apple）觀察家們不愿看到的。 ????這樁難纏的專利之爭始自上個月。彼時，蘋果率先發難，控告三星“盲目復制”幾乎所有iPhone和iPad的創新特性，包括小至這些設備屏幕上的圖標以及設備包裝盒等細節。 ????而三星很可能認為，它這次的要求會利用輿論扳回一局。就在三星提出申請前幾天，法官曾命令該公司向法庭提交其一長串Android設備的產前樣品，以便蘋果能夠確定自己的訴訟是否針對的就是這些產品。 ????但事實上，無論從哪個角度看，三星的申請都不太可能在法庭上引起正面反響。“我們的下一步”（This is my next）網站的尼萊?帕特爾上周六晚發表了一長篇博客。在文章一開頭他就陳述了一個事實：迄今為止蘋果對其未來產品計劃一直保持沉默，而三星對其新型智能手機和平板電腦的推廣卻在互聯網上無處不在。其中一款產品Galaxy Tab 10.1，在兩周前舉行的谷歌I/O大會上（Google I/O conference），給數千名到場的開發人員每人發了一部。 ????三星在蜂窩技術專利方面背景深厚，手里著實有些可打的法律硬牌。但是，在眼前的這場官司中，他們沒什么優勢可言。 ????三星上周五提出的申請文件全文可參見這里。 ????譯者：大海 |
????What Apple watcher hasn't wished he could do what Samsung's lawyers did Friday night in a California federal court: File expedited discovery papers demanding "samples of Apple's next-generation iPhone and iPad." ????It was the latest move in nasty patent fight that Apple (AAPL) started last month when it accused Samsung of "slavishly copy[ing]" nearly every innovative feature of the iPhone and iPad, down to the icons on their screens and the boxes they come in. (See Steve Jobs would sue his sister...) ????Samsung probably figured the request would play well in the court of public opinion, given that it came only a few days after a judge ordered Samsung to hand over pre-production samples of a long list of Samsung's Android devices so that Apple could determine whether they are covered by its suit. ????But it's unlikely to play well in real court for all the reasons This is my next's Nilay Patel laid out in a long post Saturday night, starting with the fact that Apple hasn't breathed a word about its future product plans, whereas Samsung has been promoting its new smartphones and tablets all over the Internet. One of them, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, was handed out to each of the thousands of developers who attended Google's (GOOG) I/O conference two weeks ago. ????Samsung, with its deep portfolio of cellular telephony patents, has some strong legal cards to play. This was not one of them. ????The full text of Friday's filing is available here. |
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