Steve Jobs must be spinning in his grave with glee. Apple Inc. is seeking
a U.S. sales ban on eight models of Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)
smartphones and the extension of a preliminary ban on a tablet computer after
winning a patent trial against the South Korean company, Bloomberg reports.
Apple, which won more than $1 billion Aug. 24 after a jury
found Samsung infringed six of seven patents at stake in the trial, named the
phones it wants barred in a filing yesterday with U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh
in San Jose, California. The list includes several devices in the bestselling
Galaxy lineup.
The effect on Samsung’s sales will be negligible because its
newest smartphones aren’t on Apple’s list of devices, which will account for
less than 1.4 percent of the Korean company’s profits next year, said Mark
Newman, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein who used to work at Samsung. The
impact would be 6.3 percent if Apple manages to broaden a ban to newer devices
and block 80 percent of all Samsung phones, he said….
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