Apple Suing Samsung For Using The Letter "A" In Name
On Wednesday Apple Inc. added several new accusations to its already lofty list of litigation against Samsung. Apple filed a 350-page motion at 9:40am with the third-district court in Santa Ana, California stating that Samsung is deliberately using the letter “A” in their name to confuse customers into thinking they are buying Apple products.
“We’ve seen this type of activity from Samsung time-and-time again,” said Bob Layman, Senior Legal Council at Apple, Inc, “Samsung thinks they can just use whatever style, design, and alpha-numeric characters they please when marketing their products. There are consequences for stealing other people’s intellectual property, Samsung.”
Layman stated that when consumers go into a well-lit, big-box store to purchase Apple products they are immediately confused and possibly hypnotized by the letter “A” in Samsung’s name causing them to touch, use, and ultimately purchase Samsung products thinking they are “a low-quality-line of Apple products at 50% of the cost for exactly the same functionality and higher specs”.
Samsung representatives say they are already overwhelmed by Apple’s heavy use of litigation and this newest lawsuit only serves as proof of Apple’s arrogance and desperation.
“We really thought they were pulling at strings two weeks ago when they filed a motion in a Ugandan court against us for using ‘a transparent solid material to cover viewable screen areas of a device’.Neither of us even sell products in Uganda. Before that I think it was a motion in Germany to stop us from having touchable or pushable buttons and some crap about having the numeric touchpad numbers in numeric order,” said Dave Reedy, Attorney for Samsung.
Other Apple competitors are on high-alert waiting for Apple to come after them for the same frivolous reasons.
Acer Spokesman, Chip Davis, told The Grindery that if Apple sues them it will be devastating — aside from the fact that it may let people know that Acer is not only still in business but also still sells technology products.
Asus did not seem at all concerned about Apple or litigation. “Did you see that commercial we did where everyone mispronounced ‘Asus’, and instead said ‘asses’?” laughed CEO, Jerry Shen.
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