Samsung working with US carriers to update phones that Apple wants banned.
Would this work? The jury wasn't allowed to update the phones in question, so obviously none of them ran ICS. If Samsung did an over the air update to all the phones Apple wants banned, and got them all running stock ICS, which apparently doesn't infringe on Apple patents on the software side....how would the judge have to rule?
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/28/32...ple-injunction
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Samsung has stated it has software workarounds for two patents the jury found were violated by a number of its devices. But thanks to Google, thee outlook may be even better than that. According to the court document Apple used to detail infringing products, Samsung has found methods to get around all three utility patents: multitouch scroll, bounceback, and tap-to-zoom. AT&T's Galaxy S II Skyrocket, for example, was found to violate none of those behaviors — owing to the fact that the Skyrocket shipped with Android 2.3.5, which removed bounceback from scroll lists and also addressed the other patents. Contrast that with earlier devices like AT&T's original Galaxy S II or the Droid Charge (which coincidentally is being advertised on Verizon's website today), and you can clearly see when Google and Samsung began making a conscious effort to skirt around Apple's patent portfolio.
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I guess that is one way to get Samsung to update older phones to ICS. Win/win for Google.
