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Apple Enforces Sales Ban on Samsung Nexus Smartphone in the USA
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The court ordered ban on sales on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone has come into effect after Apple posted the required US$95.6 million bond with the court.
Although the court ordered the rare pre-trial ban on sales, it was conditional on Apple posting the bond to cover costs should it ultimately lose the court case when it goes to trial.
The Samsung handset has been made for Google as an own-branded model, and Google now says that it has a software workaround to bypass the patents that Apple is enforcing.
Google has also updated its website sales page to state that the device is "coming soon".
Apple is arguing that the Nexus smartphone infringes on four of its patents: the use of a single search function, the slide to unlock facility; predictive text and manipulation of data structures within computer data.
However, only the patent relating to the search functionality is the one being cited by the Judge in approving the pre-trial sales ban. The other patents the Judge agreed had been infringed, but the seriousness of those patents would not have waranted the sales ban.
If Samsung or Google are able to develop a work around for the search patent, then the Judge is expected to lift the sales ban until the matter goes to a full trial.
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