Apple wins a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus; we're giving one away right this second!

What will happen when G'Nexus is officially banned in US? Will Google/Samsung re-release it with some modification? Not that it matters to me, because I am not in US and from where I am patent battles don't happen :). :peace of mind:

It's ridiculous that the Apple/Google war is being fought over patents. Especially patents that aren't even technological discoveries. Proprietary technology is fine, but patenting things like combining search results (or even rectangular phones) is just absurd. This is just another example that the patent system is broken and needs to be revamped so that patents for these trivial "innovations" aren't being granted.

I hope that this injunction gets lifted and Apple loses its patent claim. And on a bigger level, I hope that people start seeing Apple for what it is now (a litigator).

The cult of apple. They build a phone and tell you "this is what's best for you my child" "There is no need to customize your phone. We control the horizontal, we control the vertical. We can diluge you with a thousand images or bring one single thought to crystal clarity" And like most cults, when outsiders threaten their hold on their followers with talk of individualism, they lash out in an effort to silence them. Google/Android has always been about a personally customized experience. Long live Android!

Wtf Apple is like Facebook slowly turning dying out more and more people are getting androids aka Google+

The problem with Apple, and software patents in general, is the fact that patents are granted for ideas that are not anything intuitive or specific, but rather, obvious and general. Where patent trolls merely hoard these "ideas" for use in court, companies such as Apple are patent warriors that seek to eliminate the competition in court rather than at market. Imagine if Apple had been granted that multitouch patent and where the smartphone market would be right now. This nonsense about software patents needs to end, but I doubt it will. 2012 will usher in the idea of "litigation over inovation" and we'll see the likes of the OHA fall in rank with Apple. And that is a very sad thing.

I was once a "Apple Google Neutral Guy" who admired the both companies contributions to mobile communications industry until Apple released the iPad aka the over-sized iPod Touch and iPhone aka the iPod Touch + Comms Radios! These device proved Apple has used up just about all of it's innovation in mobile OS architecture and hardware design (there hasn't been a significant design change, and some customers where screwed the "S" factor)! If you dig deeper, they are playing catch up, but adding a "Apple touch" to it! Passport to Google Wallet, Notifications, Google had that, and lastly multitasking, which they were last to implement! Google is posed to take over and Apple is aware, and what bothers me is the Judge who issued the preliminary injunction might be using a iPhone, and owns a iPad! The Judge who issued the injunction on the Galaxy 10.1 needs to be slapped! I've owned both (to be exact iPad 1 and iPad 2) and I'm NOT sorry to say this: "you can't be confused by the two, they are completely different! So Apple needs to open up a can of "shut the oooof up and stop crying", have a engineering huddle and figure out how to win at this game of innovation without being a bitch about it! Leave Samsung, HTC, Motorola, and LG alone because what makes those companies unique is that they compete with each other and at the same time help each other! Why not go after Microsoft? Oh Wait because they have a lot of money and their lawyers will own yours in a court room! Lastly, how are they going to say "we have a patent for search implementation that Google is violating" when every techie and even non techie knows Google is synonymous for "search", and has the better engineers!!

No matter whether Apple will win these lawsuits or not, they are damaging their public relations and this is simply slowing down the technology progress. Bad move Apple!

Hey they BOTH stole the idea from me while I was napping....

I'm the real napster.

apple sucks ! that's all I want to say. And I want to win this Nexus :D

Apple is so ridiculous now. Come on.

Google should just patent the making of overpriced cookie cutter products, and put apple out of business. Besides everyone rips off everyone else, apple needs to make more than one product and get over it.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus.

The big loser is the consumers. If there's not competition, then how do we get the best product? This is absolutely ridiculous. Obviously, some features from Apple products were used as inspiration for Samsung products, and some features from Samsung products have no doubt been used as inspiration for Apple products. Stop being a bunch of babies... especially Apple. The company most well-known for innovation should be doing just that, not bickering over a company using their products for inspiration.

Dumped my Click Wheel iPod long time ago and haven't looked back, miss some of my music I bought from them though.

Apple got tired of locking up just their own customers in their ecosystem, now they are trying to lock everyone else out of the ecosystem of their choice. When the patent system is used as an alternative to real improvement in your products it's a sign your loosing.

Apple must really be afraid of Jelly Bean. We should plop a big statue in their front driveway.

Patent BS its getting old, let's just enjoy our technology, ill take a free upgrade

What?apple is out of their mind.we should stop buying there product and give the a lesson.im going to get an android soon :)

I think its BS what Apple is doing. Someone needs to ban that "major update" they call iOS 6.

It's funny, all smartphone platforms can have a share of the proverbial mobile pie and survive...only one seems to think the entire mobile market is an Apple pie -_- Maybe we should have Jason Biggs sort them out.

I wish I had a patent for sex. I haven't yet decided if it would be for the money or for the women, but who cares. Win-win

Im so tired of all of this damn patent war stuff.. and id love to have a gnex and be a "rebel" ;)

Preerelease! Anyways, thanks for giving away android goodness for free even if it isn't me. Still fun even if I don't win one:)

I heard God was hiring a patent attorney to sue Apple for stealing the word "apple" and all likenesses of apples. There was a whistleblower serpent involved. "And on the eighth day he invoked patent protection....."

Apple is a POS company that should prepare for the worst when all these companies go after them for patents HARD. I want to see Google get patent for Glasses ASAP and anything else they come out with from now on. I'd also like to see Crapple die under its own terrible hardware offers and pricey products that simply look "pretty." Consumers need to learn about what they are buying "under the exterior" of the technology they are purchasing. If this happened then I highly doubt Apple stays where they are in the industry!

When are we going to stand up as consumers and demand patent reform?

This is completely ridiculous. I've watched Apple's anti-competitive tactics for awhile now, but to manage to get a ban on a SAMSUNG phone that just became GOOGLE's Jelly Bean flagship? That needs to be punished, and punished hard.

Apple needs to realize they copy things like everyone else and not everything requires a lawsuit.

This just makes Apple look desperate. Come on, Apple! Everyone is making smartphones now. Time to get over it!

Just plain insane!

I don't even care if I win I was touched by this post and how blunt it is, but this patent stuff just shows the narrow minds associated with Apple. Nothing will be original and every idea or product will cross each others path at one point. Apple's fear in losing competitive edge and them winning law suit makes them feel their dick just got a little bigger. I

So searching for something on your phone is okay. Searching for it on the web is okay. Performing both operations at the same time with your voice is an idea that belongs to Apple and Apple alone?

Unbelievable.

This has pissed me off so bad I will be refusing help to anyone who asks me for an apple product at work tomorrow and will be redirecting them to another employee. I only pray that they ask 'why?' so I have a chance to persuade them. That's how messed up this patent stuff is: Leading me to Retail Assosciate Vigilantism.

Patent right is a good law for protect the new inventions. Otherwise all of them start coping new inventions. So that the person who created that new product face loses and he/she apathy. So patent right will promote new inventions. If there is innovations, economic grow rapidly. However, in this point, Apple company always struggling with their competitors by using the patent right. There can be fair reason for that, but what public thing. As a result of these court issue, there is a big negative opinion to the apple. As well as Samsung and other manufactures should respect others patent rights. In recent past we can see most of the time apple struggle with Samsung for some patent right violations. As a result of that, Samsung mobile get more attentions. So that, they receive more than 9 million Galaxy S3 pre-orders. Looks like people don't care about the patent rights and they hate Apple. As a android lover, i don't like this injunction.

Thanks!

Soon there will be no innovation.

Wow first the HTC phones now the nexus.... This has to stop.... Why is apple so chicken shit?

I vote for a class action against crapple for depriving everybody of their toys!

No injunctions here in Australia, yet. Good thing we can just order one in from HongKong anyway.

Pretty, pretty, pretty messed up

Its messed up because apple copies android with almost every update they put out now (notification system anyone, pull down notifications, etc) and google doesn't go around suing them every step of the way. But apple finds it necessary to sue over a slide to unlock system, i mean really? That's like a kid crying to his mom because his sandcastle got knocked over by a wave. Apple should really just man up and say "hey these guys know what there doing, we better step up our game" instead they lose control of what to do once steve jobs passed away and sit around with a thumb up there butt. Sorry apple but your losing control of the market and android is taking over. Besides there's a reason samsung is catching up to you guys in sales ;)

Apple needs to man up and quit crying about everything. They need to concentrate on having better sales based on quality instead of getting better sales because there is no one else to buy from due to their excessive frivolous lawsuits.

They are pretty much saying I can't be me because you are you... I don't see how they can make a ruling like this. It's a different product. May be similar, but not the same. I would like to win one though to judge it for myself..

Hmmm... I am having a hard time competing in the market so lets sue someone that has something similar to what I have a patent for.... yeah... that's the ticket!

Apple is taking advantage of a broken system. The patent system has its merits, but it has a lot of loopholes that need to be covered.

The lawyers shouldn't be upset - it's the corporate greed that created the patents & the flawed patent system that allows this to happen. Hope someday soon this will end, with a more sensible system that allows companies to innovate yet we can all enjoy the hardware we want.

Apple ducks as much as itunes does.

Apple probably has a patent on the wheel.
They also invented the Internet.
Give us a break, Apple. Quit trying to stop progress. Nobody wants your old tech phone.

The thing I cannot still digest is that Apple, owing all its latest developments to the opensource community, has taken from it and haven't given anything back worth mentioning.
During the relatively shorter time Android has been on the market, kernel components have already been committed to the Linux project, and lots of improvements on prior technology were on par with what Apple did to leverage their "innovation". Apple can't stand having a competitor that would success without being an exclusive club with the kind of stringent rules they force upon their users and developers.
I'm from Argentina and even as it is highly improbable that we get even one nexus, I cannot stop thinking in what a wonderful world could this be without this futile patent wars.
This is not helping tech, it is destroying it.

The more apple does this, the more I do not like them. These people do not want competiton, they want monopoly which is not good for customers. Android is the future and they do not like that. I am getting sick of these lawsuits which are limiting creativity and I just hope our laws here will not allow them to block any sales of Android phones here in South Africa. We have a choice here to buy what we want and no one has a write to impose any product on us. I think it's time Google sorts out this mess and defends these companies who are using its operating system.

Apple should try to compete with their products not their lawyers.

Patent system needs total overhaul. Totally obvious patents awarded, no real research done it seems. Apple being a douche. Waiting for Apple to sue everyone who uses electricity.

apple, apple, apple... i don't know what there is to say about you and all of your lawsuit nonsense, that hasn't already been said about yo mama!

apple cant keep up anymore their are firing at everything under the sun just to slow them down and try to catch up.

Hmmm....a judge with Korean roots rules against a Korean company...what a freaking sellout!!!

Remember when Apple used to play the underdog card? It hasn't been an underdog for at least a decade and now that Android and the OEM's are in full steam Apple can't handle the competition. If you can't beat them, sue them. What a great way for Apple to ensure we are stuck buying only their products. Stagnate the mobile phone market by complaining that it was their idea first. Sad really.

patent system is inherently broken, and this stuff just doesn't make any sense

These lawsuits suck. Well at least we get a stab at a free phone.

Why don't they just sue metacritic or other metasearch websites (that predated spotlight and the iPhone). This is all just a joke now.

I totally agree. This Patent trolling by both companies is just getting annoying and hindering innovation.

Lawyers should do their own lawyer shit as long as they don't affect us.

This injunction thing is just full of hot air for the lawyers to buy time for their arguments and don't mean shit to us.

We avg. folks dont' want to know what the lawyers fight about so keep it in the courtroom b/c we honestly don't' give a crap and only tell us when you actually have a ban that actually is implemented and not some empty threat. Seriously. Pretty we'll see lawyers bitching each other over twitter again anytime soon. Lawyers these days... =.=

I find it annoying that Apple has to find the simplest rubbish to squabble over. Just come to an agreement and get it over with. I'm tired of Apple playing witch hunt over the simpler things. At the end of the day I'm still not going to purchase an apple product and I dare to say Never.

always this ridiculous story... What's the matter this time ? "OMG, the Galaxy has a touch screen like the iphone !?!?" "OMG, the Nexus takes photos, just like the iphone !?!?"

This is just so pathetic...

I think today's Dilbert strip sums it up quite nicely. (I'd post a link but not sure if they're filtered. It's not like it's hard to find.)

Apple just knows that Google's OS is out performing theirs and Apple wants to do anything the can to fight it.

Lawyers are just doing what they are told, its the patent system thats broken. Which is why its being exploited. but still, booooo!!

Q: How do you get a group of lawyers to smile for a photo?
A: Just say, "Fees!"

It'd be nice if they spent this money developing something new, rather than suing everybody else.

Well since they obviously can't innovate, they are resorting yo litigate.

The patent system is completely broken, and for Apple to be able to acquire such vague patents should be illegal. Apple cannot keep up with the growth of Android , so they attempt to sue them to death. I'm sick of seeing a new story , every week it seems, about this. Someone needs to step in (Google) and just shut Apple down for good...

F those Apple bastards. oh and id love a Nexus. Thanks

Apple is going to far with this war. All this thing will come back one day like a boomerang.
Thx God here in Greece we don't have those problems with restrictions of products. ;)

In short the patent wars makes no sense because no matter what things are going to be similar. What apple is doing is like if Toyota sued Honda because both of their cars have wheels and an engine. Things are bound to be similar. But just because they are similar does not mean they are not the same. For example, I learned in biology class that the difference in DNA between a chimp and a person is that we only differ by 2 percent, yet that 2 percent difference makes us human. I think the only reason Apple is getting into these patent wars with HTC, Motorola, and Samsung is because they cannot innovate anymore. they are losing the innovation war so they are relying on a broken legal system to help them. WHat i think is that apple needs to go back to Silicon Valley and start putting some work in because they are pissing off a hell of a lot of people!.... oh and i would love to win this phone because I love android and I cannot wait to try out jelly bean and buy my Nexus 7 :D

I feel that this is apple throwing there money around trying to squash any and all competition, meanwhile it just makes them look bad (my 2cents).

Dear #Apple, Please stop suing all your competitors over #patents. It's getting old now. Sincerely, John Public (I tweeted that earlier and I think it still applies) @jhaunell

Apple is really making huge strides! Just in the wrong field :(.
Crying to the government about all this nonsense is just stupid. Just make a good product (they've already done this) and capitalize on it! Don't go dragging others down just cause business isn't in your favor.

Nothing is new in the world. You see the same thing with 8 year old kids. They start doing something new and everyone has fun until someone decides its stupid. Now they've grown up and get to sue each other while the whole time their parents are laughing because they came up with it when they were kids.

the patent system is so messed up that a Search company can b sued for a unified search patent.

I am amazed by the american judicial system. More so by the judge who issued the injunction. Maybe she should have used the two devices to see how different both of them are....like the sky and the earth! And why does the patent office allow such ambiguous patents to be filed in the first place? What should be considered is the algorithm used to achieve said slide to unlock!!! Furthermore, how was Apple irreparably affected by the sale of the GNex? We have a saying in our country....'Mbaazi ikikosa kumea hulaumu jua"(Translation: If a certain fruit tree does not yield fruit, it blames the sun) that's what Apple is doing.

I think its high time Google took off the gloves and got enjoined in the suit. Yes, do no evil, but if your neighbour is shitting on your front door, smack the bitch!

I study law and frankly even this is beyond the realms of our right and wrong

It seems patently ridiculous (I'm sorry, I couldn't resist) that you can patent the act of sliding a finger horizontally across the screen to make the phone start working. This whole thing has gotten way out of hand. I thought a patent was for something new and unique. How is Apple losing money by other companies using "Slide to unlock"? Was that a breakthrough in technology of which I was unaware? I am tired of hearing about it.

Iphone:This is it. This is the end. Yes. You were laying right there, just like that. And I. . . I... I stand here, right here, and I'm supposed to say something. I say, "Everything that has a beginning has an end, Andro".

You own this, she owns that, he owns this, they own that.
In the end, it's sad to know that I, or someone else, have a good idea to better what everyone has, yet we can't do anything about it.
Patents will only hold back this rapidly advancing technology world.

P.S.
apple is a big old p$#@%y. (It doesn't deserve to be capitalized, even though it is the beginning of the sentence.)
I'd rather use a dumb flip phone than their f%$#@ing prisoner phone. (I won't call their sh&%#y products as they would like the consumers call them.)

All this patent nonsense needs to stop on both sides I know Apple was the first one to start this, but they need to relax they are acting like all they can do is sue instead of creating something new to catch up or pass Google. What Apple and Google need to do is focus on delivering good and new products to the consumers and let us choose, gives us variety we will buy what we want and if we buy your product good :) it means your doing a great job keep going no need to sue and slow down your rival with dumb things like this, instead leave him thinking wow I need to top that!!

Live and live Apple!

I'm all for intellectual property rights. People and corporations should profit from their creative work. But when it significantly restricts and encroaches on consumer choice, it's got to stop.

'Slide to unlock' is the functional equivalent of a doorknob. It's not extraordinary. It's not revolutionary. It's a very simple means of opening something.

The problem is that Apple only wants to allow doorknobs on the houses they designed and built in their strict, peculiar fashion. If you like someone else's house design better, go ahead and buy it - without doorknobs.

Blow a goat, Apple. I will never buy anything with iOS, regardless of whether it has 'slide to unlock' or not. It's just not for me. Therefore, you are not damaged if I buy another manufacturer's phone, even if it has that feature. You're not getting my money in any case, simply because I don't like your phone. 'Slide to unlock' has absolutely nothing to do with it. Quit putting restrictions on the phones I do like; when you do that, you're just being a dick.

Apple Board Member 1: So, Android is eclipsing us at a record rate. How do we stop it?

Apple Board Member 2: Well, we have a whole stack of various random, vague and suspect patents, right?

ABM1: You're right! I almost forgot about those....Hey, peon.

Apple Peon: Yes.

ABM2: We need you to gather together a team to rip apart Android and find anything and everything that might be a violation of these patents, no matter how tenuous they may be.

AP: Ok, but wouldn't it be better if we just added some truly innovative new features? I mean, I have a few ideas. For example, in the....

ABM1: Wait, let me stop you right there. Innovate? Really, innovate?! You're talking about innovating? Innovate?....See, we don't do that anymore.

ABM2: Yeah, we'd rather bury the competition with litigation than actually put some effort into creating something that actually progresses the technology.

ABM1: Also, after we litigate, we steal. So, while you're at it, compile a list of all the features Android has that we should add to iOS then market the hell out of like we invented it.

ABM2: Can we trust you to do that? Or are you morally above all of this?

AP: I...I guess...sure, yeah, I'll do it.

ABM2: Don't disappoint us. You can't even imagine the things we can do to you if you fail. Did you actually read the contract you signed when you started working here?

AP: Um...no.

ABM1 & ABM2: (chuckle)

ABM1: No one ever does....Bring us results.

ABM2: What are you waiting for? GO!

Bunch of crap, man.

Next thing you know Apple will apply for a finger patent. We'll be swiping our revamped GNex's with our elbows... or, well I won't go there.

I think that Apple continuing the patent war just goes to show how afraid they are of samsung. They can't imagine another company out selling and taking their customers especially when the products prove to be far superior. Sooner are later they will have to bite the apple(see how I made a joke right there) lol, but serious soon they will have to start fighting with their products and not their money. Until then samsung FTW :)

A Billion Dollar Company suing a Billion Dollar Company. I'm sure they'll survive. Nexus me!

This is the craziest lawsuit ever! Stop cheating innovation apple!

This is the craziest lawsuit ever! Stop cheating innovation apple!

This is the craziest lawsuit ever! Stop cheating innovation apple!

If Kenny Everett was still with us, he would have the answer to all these patent lawyers:
Round em up... Put em in a field... and bomb the bastards

Never one for political correctness, our Kenny;)

apple makes me sick!

This whole patent thing doesn't make any sense at all. Patents are given away for the tiniest and most simple things. Therefore it's practically impossible to create a phone and pay for every patent you break, it's just to much.
In my opinion, the whole patent system should be changed. It's nice that one can patent a really original idea, but patents shouldn't be given away for every little thing.

This is a perfect example of immaturity in the business world. This isn't what competition should be about.

I really hope all of this drama is just part of some marketing move, cuz if not, i refuse to belive that the same people that worked together to make a reality this absolutely amazing s3 i just had the pleasure of buying recently,or that absolutely gorgeous and indespensable 4th gen ipod i own,are the main characters capable of these extremely ridiculos and pathetic action. If your shareholders, apple ,dont know tech, dont let them get involved in decisions that only manage to stiffle innovation. Tim Cook, if u cant handle it dude,step down and let somebody fresh,and open minded to do it,somebody still passionate about it, the innovation i mean. U can say about Jobs whatever, bu t his passion made Apple the s,!(hit. Whereas other people with a more open minded attitude made Android the s?/*it. Anytime i would rather be part of a team.... Anyway,i get passionate easily about select events,like a certain merger that got concluded a while ago, as decency demanded it, so, to make long story short, money aint got nothin to do with love, and viceversa. Innovate,dont just let people think u do,then cry like a baby
in kindergarden cuz daddy left u there , and u dont know how to go about stuff o your own.
So, again, i really hope all this is just some well thought marketing move, cuz if not, i refuse to accepts that i am surrounded by such imbecils. Analogies apply. We suppose to evolve, yet we regres. Sad, really... By the way, dont need the GNex. S3 is such a bad boy, to become a beast once a stable jelly bean rom comes its way.

Take care now! ;-)

All that patent nonsense will make companies grow in their patent and lawyer portfolio and would stop innovation and It can just end up making us, the clients, with the worst part of the deal. And Apple is just going crazy with all the lawsuits.

It's amazing how much Apple likes to bite the hand that feeds them. Samsung should just tell them to go find their parts somewhere else!

This whole thing is a waste of everyone's time and money. It won't hurt the competitors in any way other than legal fees anyway.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan..... Fukk Apple! Fukk the black iphone, Fukk the white iphone, Fukk seri, Fukk whoever thought of it, Fukk the plane they flew in on, Fukk them gay a$$ lawyers they got, Fukk they shirt, Fukk they momma for teachin them to cry like Bitc#es, Fukk a mac, Fukk a ipad, and if you mad Fukk u!

When will they ever see the truth? If you cant beat'em JOIN'EM! We'll gladly throw that sh!t in the trash.

Down with apple and patent wars!

Apple needs to stop this patent trolling nonsense stop stealing Android's pull-down notification tray and voice search. On the hardware side whose bright idea was to build iPhone 4 and 4S sandwiched between two panes of glass that breaks when you drop it, you have to buy a thick protective case to protect the breakable glass. Galaxy Tab 10.1 is lighter, thinner, and runs much cooler than the iPad 2 and the New iPad.

total bullshit as always. apple stop being such sore losers

I keep wanting to compare the phone market to the car market. If teo car companies bring out 4wheel drive cars, do they sue for copying? No. If cars are similarly styled, do they sue? No. They call it inspiration. And what do they do to differentiate the selves the whole time? They innovate, they market, they give good secondary car benefits.

Can't wait for the phone market to be similar.

Im all about different tech i love it all and i get why they'd make this a big deal but come on. Its more of an HOMAGE of apple. Plus they say mimicking is the greatest form of flattery.

A revolution should be made about these patents.
Patents should only be awarded if the company has the working product on hand and can be marketed at once.
Instead of awarding patents to ideas that does not, cannot, and will not exist. And suing the hell out of anyone who made them possible.

Nowadays, all, well for the most part, smartphones have the same features but are presented in different manners. So of all phones, why does Apple decide to put down the Galaxy Nexus? The Galaxy Nexus is a beauty and waay better than any Apple product. Yes, I've been exposed to both of them and experienced the difference. Apple has been on top for a while and just wants to stay there and doesn't want lose their place. The best will rise to the top and now the Galaxy Nexus is on top, not the iPhone. This is complete nonsense.

honestly, i can't even blame apple. this is the mentality of the entire tech industry. nothing amplifies the current state better than the existence of companies who don't actually add benefit to industry but who patent trolls for profit. and sadly, we, the consumer, suffer the most.

I think we need a reform now on the patent system in the US. I feel we should petition the government to step because it's getting a little out of hand now. Some of apples patents are so vague.

All they want is everyone in the world to use an Iphone or nothing at all. I'm glad I switched to android last year. This move will make me never want another product from them. Stop the litigating, embrace competition, and get better. Bottom line!!

A rotten Apple a day keeps the Nexus away =(

The only bright side of this news:

As a condition of the injunction, Apple was ordered to post a bond of more than $95 million, to secure payment of damages sustained by Samsung should the injunction be deemed a wrongful decision later.

Not that it matters much to the richest company in America....

Apple is afraid of whats happening. This patent war is a attempt to slow it down but can't and want last forever! It's just a matter of time before Android moves ahead in innovation and product!!

The only ones who win these fights are the lawyers... It's a waste of resources when the money could have been used for innovation instead.

The funny thing here is that the whole patent battel was started by Apple who claimes to be the moste "inovating" company. They are scared that the technology they bring to the market actually is invented by others like Samsung LG and at the end they do have only ios with shiny icons that people love and piece of glass on top of it. To stay in the market thay had to block others not to be knocked out by technology going beyound their devices. Having tons of money they want to show power and hide behind the court playing the victim. At the end they do not want to see anything better then their products on the mobile market. Well I am not Apple hater but at the end I belive that technology should evoluate (instead of being stopped) and we should decide which device we prefer and not let Apple to choose for us.
Greeting from Poland ;)

I am shocked that there is still so much interest in Apple as this type of corporate behavior completely alienates me from buying their goods. Most of these patents are arbitrarily granted just because someone filed without consideration that they are inherent to all touch devices. 

Phil Nickelson, I swear. Not so much Apple as the US patent system needs to figure out wtf they are doing. I mean come on. Patent '604 for multi source search? How was that even granted in the first place. As far as I remember, Android has had that FOREVER. Then we have the patent which covers the popup that allowed you to choose which app to perform the action in which you clicked. Does the iPhone even have this capability? No, it doesnt. Again, Android has had this since the beginning. This is just terrible news about the Galaxy Nexus. I hope so the all mighty smartphone gods that this is appealed and the ban is reserved. Immediately.

Mama said if you not going to play nice then don't play at all.......I do love my Mama

Thing is we as the end user, we don't care who came up with what. We want the best, smoothest, most usercentric smartphone we can get. Some people want a solid device that runs the newest cutting edge software. Some want a simple sleek design. The way I see it we should be the opinion that matters most. When a great idea or ui or line of code comes around it should be shared built on brain stormed and made better. Not locked in a glass box for all to look at and not use. More people should focus on the end result and less on who made what. Also Apple kinda sucks.

Lololololol seriously though, this is stupid

This only makes Apple look really bad and desperate. They are ruining their already damaged image by trying to litigate, instead of innovate... They could be spending all of that money to try to out innovate Android, instead of just trying to ban them. The patent system seriously needs a major overhaul.

Litigation is easier than innovation. Thanks for opportunity

Thanks apple way to control what your phone competes with

The GNex now? I'd heard of the tab, that looks nothing like the iTampon by the way, but not of the GNex. Guess the new evil empire is feeling threatened.

The patent system really has to change. Either don't patent software at all or really scrutinize new patents. All these trivial patents do nothing more than hinder innovation anymore.

well because apple is about to get screwed because of google trying to make everyone use their product ( as shown this week GOOGLE IO). some how apple claimed that they patented and wont allow the right for android operating phones to use them. now if you see samsung is kinda stuck in the middle because they provide the top features in hardware is providing both companies ( Google Nexus made by samsung ) ( Iphone 4s Some chip or something ) but yeah it started with samsung and apple then it reached to google ... Wtf is nokia doing during all this; and .... blackberry ? pfffttt that shit was way in the past!

Apple needs to just shut up and deal with the fact that other companies make quality products. I'm so over that damned company. I love Samsung products and I would completely love getting my hands on one of these new phones!
I'll never buy another Apple product as long as I live.

If Apple put half as much money and effort into bettering their products as the put into filing lawsuits against their competition, they might actually have a shot at living in the shadow of Android success.

No matter how hard the thermonuclear war goes, Android still kick ass

Patent system must be changed, this is ridiculous.