Apple Leaves U.K. Judge at ‘Loss’ Over Samsung Web Posts

Source: Bloomberg News

Apple Inc. (AAPL) was criticized by U.K. judges for posting a notice on its website about a lawsuit with Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) that was “untrue” and “incorrect.”

The U.K. Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple to remove the statement within 24 hours and replace it with a new notice acknowledging the inaccurate comments.

“I’m at a loss that a company such as Apple would do this,” Judge Robin Jacob said today. “That is a plain breach of the order.”

The decision is the latest in a lawsuit that produced a July judgment in which another London court said the design for three Samsung Galaxy tablets didn’t infringe Apple’s registered design because they were not “cool” enough. Apple, based in Cupertino, California, was told by the same court last month to post a notice about the ruling that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets didn’t copy the design of Apple’s iPad.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-01/apple-ordered-to-change-notice-in-u-k-samsung-case.html

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Apple Must Apologise To Samsung Again: And Properly This Time.

The Court of Appeal in the UK this morning decided that Apple had been very naughty boys. Their apology, which the same court had previously ruled Apple must publish, to Samsung was not adequate. Indeed, it was inaccurate near to the point of being misleading. Apple must now publish a further apology, using the correct terms and language, and keep it up until 14 th December on their UK home page.

My advice to Apple at this point is to stop playing around and do as the nice judges say. For those judges at the Court of Appeal do not take kindly to being played around with. The Guardian has part of the story:

The UK court of appeal has reprimanded Apple over the wording of the statement on its website acknowledging that Samsung did not infringe the iPad tablet’s registered design, and ordered it to put an altered statement on its homepage – rather than tucked away in a linked page – until 14 December.

The acknowledgement put up last week, linked from the home page by a tiny link, was deemed to be “non-compliant” with the order that the court had made in October. The court has now ordered it to correct the statement – and the judges, Lord Justice Longmore, Lord Justice Kitchin and Sir Robin Jacob, indicated that they were not pleased with Apple’s failure to put a simpler statement on the site.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/11/01/apple-must-apologise-to-samsung-again-and-properly-this-time/

Offending current apology at this link : http://www.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/