If anything it could be a sign that the US trial was flawed, because believe me, the Japanese don't particularly like (or benefit from the success of) Korean companies.

Or maybe because different countries have different laws.

Much of patent law is governed by international treaties.

That's a very interesting reality that you live in.

Really? Is this because the same things were being tried in both courts? Or because the Japanese are racist? Or perhaps because the Japanese don't particularly like (or benefit from the success of) Apple?

If anything, your comment is nonsense.

The GP comment makes sense. There is a long standing resentment between Korea and Japan stemming from WWII excesses of Japanese army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule)

Not to mention they're competitors in most areas of trade... especially IT.

No, his comment really isn't nonsense. Japan and South Korea have an incredibly poor relationship.

> Japan and South Korea have an incredibly poor relationship

That's a overly simplistic. The relationship between Japan and Korea is very complicated. They have a long history together, and a lot of culture in common.

There are certain issues over which there is conflict, and certain classes of people within each country that beat the nationalist drums harder than average, but there's also a lot of mutual admiration, especially among the young. The antagonism won't die down anytime soon, but I'd say the trend is definitely downwards.

"Asia" isn't an homogeneous mass. And historically Japan haven't been overly fond of the Koreans and really have no reason to want to see them succeed.

In Japanese TV, Koreans are often portrayed in the same way as a US tv-show would portray a Mexican in a parodical way, i.e. primitive and under-developed.

I doubt the Japanese courts would hand them any free favours.

Really? I didn't realise it was that bad.

Just like how American courts always side with Mexican companies against European ones! Wait, I think something's wrong with this picture.

Not exactly the same. Samsung's loss against Apple in the US was devastating. It wasn't a clear cut loss for Apple in South Korea. The South Korean court also found against Samsung and banned some of their products.

Well Samsung won also in UK, with the 'Samsung did not copy iPad' advert