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This to me feels different than fake cisco gear. In the case of the fake cisco gear they are built to look and pass for cicso gear even running stolen copies of
by nkassis 15y ago
This to me feels different than fake cisco gear. In the case of the fake cisco gear they are built to look and pass for cicso gear even running stolen copies of cisco catalyst and IOS software. Samsung isn't claiming their phone is an iPhone. You can tell they are different and the OS looks different. Customers are not getting fooled into buying Samsung phone thinking it's a real iPhone.
- Jun8 15y agoI was referring to not selling fake Cisco gear but the theft of Cisco router code and using it on Huawei's routers. According to some estimates 40% of the code on those routers were Cisco's. This was a famous case and everybody knew about it but Cisco couldn't do anything!
- nkassis 15y agoI still think that kind of thing is very different than what is going on here. That's theft, and it's not patent infringement but copyright infringement. If apple had claim that their code or that the chips in samsung's phones were taken from Apple I'd think it's warranted to go after them but suing for someone using the same swipe move as you?
- Jun8 15y agoYou are right, it is tangentially relevant to this particular case. Yet the fact remains that there is a certain mindset in some Asian companies. I am not saying that was the case here.
- ZeroGravitas 15y ago"They hanged the man and flogged the woman, Who stole the goose from off the common. But they let the greater villain loose, Who stole the common from under the goose." Or to relate it to this case, how is claiming that only you can make rectangles or any of these patent hold-ups not "theft" that everyone knows about but can't do anything about?