If you’re up to date with the legal wrangling that’s been going on between Apple and Samsung then you’ll know that Apple’s managed to get preliminary injunctions against various Samsung models.
Apple sends letters to retailers about stopping sale of Samsung Galaxy Nexus
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus injunction WAS given a temporary reprieve, but Apple still feels confident. Confident enough, in fact, to directly contact retailers and networks that deal with Samsung and warn them against selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 or the Galaxy Nexus, upon pain of legal action. Well, if that isn’t handbags at dawn, we don’t know what is…
Realistically, the injunctions stop Samsung importing the barred models and giving them over to their partners, but they don’t mean that retailers who already have the phones in stock can’t sell this stock. For the Nexus it’s academic, but Samsung is predictably angry at Apple.
Legally it’s all a bit muddier. The injunctions are against “those acting in concert” with Samsung, stopping them from selling the phones in the US. Does “in concert” apply to retailers and/or carriers? It’s far from clear, but with the amount of legal action flying back and forth, we’ve not heard the last of this.
Do you think Apple has gone too far by sending letters out to various retailers and warning them to stop selling the Samsung Galaxy Nexus?
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