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Re:US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban by stock_toaster on Thursday October 11, 2012 @03:13PM (#4642256)
I found that a bit confusing as well. I wonder if the court was saying that a ban was inappropriate, and instead the remedy should have been something like a fine for every device sold that infringed (until such infringement was removed)?
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Re:US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban by stephengillie on Thursday October 11, 2012 @03:18PM (#4642281)
A big point seems to be that people buy neither an iPhone nor a Galaxy Nexus specifically for their search abilities, regardless of how much Apple wanted to advertise Siri in court.
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Re:US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban by stock_toaster on Thursday October 11, 2012 @03:25PM (#4642306) 

  > A big point seems to be that people buy neither an iPhone nor a Galaxy Nexus specifically for their search abilities
I agree.

Assume infringement of something, lets say a patented chemical in particular competitors dog food. If the court claims it is not a 'causal nexus' (people don't buy the dog food for the chemical), and that if preventing the competitor from selling the dogfood was not appropriate (no causal nexus) then I guess the remaining "relief" would be entirely monetary?

If the infringement continued after a finding, maybe it would become willful at some point meaning higher fines?

  > , regardless of how much Apple wanted to advertise Siri in court.
I don't see how this portion of your comment is relevant.
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Re:US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban by Karunamon on Thursday October 11, 2012 @03:43PM (#4642401)
Because Siri is Apple's answer to search on an iPhone, or at least thats's how I interpreted it.
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Re:US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban by bdcravens on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:24PM (#4643096)
iOS has had unified search prior to Siri. (iOS 3)
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Re:US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban by Karunamon on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:47PM (#4643156)
Yes but search is Google (and android's) defining feature. You could make the argument that Siri is the same for iOS.
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Re:US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban by bdcravens on Thursday October 11, 2012 @10:51PM (#4643661)
Not really. Siri wasn't introduced until iOS 5, and even then, would only run on one version of the 3 (3GS/4/4S) iPhones that could run iOS 5.
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