第47回 WORKSHOP報告(10月20日) / 参加者101名

みなさんこんにちは。

 

 

 

10月20日(土)に行われた第47回workshopの開催報告をさせていただきます。

 


(新人の方の自己紹介中です。やはり緊張しますよね。)

 


(今回の前半は「街おこし」についてでした)

 


(後半はアップルとサムスンの訴訟合戦についての議論でした!)

 

 

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《 今回のworkshop 》

 

 

 

○workshop参加人数:101名(うち新人の方:15名)

 

 

 

○【前半】:「街おこし」をテーマとしたディスカッション

 

 

 

○【後半】:「アップルとサムスンの訴訟合戦」をテーマとしたディスカッション

 

 

 

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今回の参加者数は101名となり、

E’s clubのworkshopで初めて参加者数が100名を超えました。

これもひとえに、いつもみなさまにサークルを盛り上げていただいているおかげです。

改めてお礼を申し上げます。ありがとうございます。

 

15名の新人の方にもお越しいただき、うれしい限りです。

 

今回の会場は114名の方が入るかなり大きな会場でしたが、座席もほぼ埋まり、とても盛り上がったworkshopとなりました。

 

では今回の案内メールをご覧ください。

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<英語サークル E’s club 第47回workshopのご案内>

 

みなさまこんばんは、E’s club幹事のKです。第47回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。

 

今回は前半のマテリアルをSさん、後半のマテリアルをRさんに作成していただきました。

前半は「街おこし」を、後半は「アップルとサムスンの訴訟合戦」をそれぞれテーマとしてディスカッションを行ないます。

 

 

[今週のマテリアル]

<FIRST HALF>

Hello, I’m I.S.

 

I went to Naoshima in Kagawa recently.

Naoshima has very beautiful nature and also the nature is harmonized with the art.

Many Artists, such as Tadao Ando, join the project of the Art event which takes place in the island once in 3 years and many people are attracted by the Art Island.

The island is one of the successful examples of economic development projects in the local areas in Japan.

 

Let’s think about successful projects to revitalize local areas.

 

1. Have you ever been to the places which succeed in economic development projects in the areas(街おこし)?

 

2. What do you think made the place succeed?

 

3. Let’s think about your hometown.

According to the discussion above, how can you make your home town developed?

What is famous industry, foods, tradition… in your home town?

How can you promote it to revitalize your town?

 

 

<LATTER HALF>

[Agenda]

How smartphones and tablet devices will change through Apple-Samsung patent lawsuits?

 

「アップルとサムスンの訴訟合戦」

iPhone5が、前月の21日に日本国内で発売され、世間の話題を呼んでいます。しかし、この旬な話題の裏で、米アップルと韓国サムスン電子の訴訟合戦が各国で(知的財産権を巡る攻防戦が)激しさを増しています。この問題は、アップルがサムスン製スマートフォン「Galaxy S 4G」等のデザインが「iPhone」の模倣であるとして商標侵害で提訴した事に端を発します。2011年4月15日から今に至るまで、両社はお互いにソフトウェアの特許侵害について告訴し合っており、アップルの申し立てにはいくつかのデザイン特許も含まれます。現時点での判決は、米国でアップルが勝ち、日本ではサムスンが勝ち、韓国では引き分けという両社互角の勝敗であります。これらの勝敗は、両社のみならず、パートナー会社であるグーグルやアンドロイド等にも影響を及ぼします。そこで今回のLATTER HALFでは、「アップルとサムスンの訴訟合戦」をテーマとして、訴訟合戦がスマートフォンやパートナー会社に与える影響等について議論をして頂きたいと思います。また、もし時間が余れば、訴訟合戦の陰で一向に存在感を示せない日本メーカーが今後スマートフォン市場で生き残っていくための戦略について議論しても面白いと思います。

 

参考記事

・CBC News Apple identifies 8 Samsung smartphones it wants banned, Aug 28, 2012

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/08/28/tech-apple-samsung-banned-phones.html

・CBC News Apple’s patent claim against Samsung rejected by Tokyo court, Aug 30, 2012

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/08/31/tech-apple-samsung-japan.html

・CBC News Samsung to sue Apple for LTE use in iPhone 5, Aug 31, 2012

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/09/11/samsung-apple-lte-patent-iphone.html

 

[Questions]

(Q1) Which do you like better, Apple products or Samsung products? And why?

(Q2) After reading the articles below, please give your opinion on the articles respectively.

【Article1】 “Apple identifies 8 Samsung smartphones it wants banned”

【Article2】 “Apple’s patent claim against Samsung rejected by Tokyo court”

【Article3】 “Samsung to sue Apple for LTE use in iPhone 5”

(Q3) Please give your opinion on what influences the patent infringement lawsuits have on companies associated with Apple or Samsung.

(Q4) Taking the verdicts on the articles into consideration, please give your idea about how smartphones and tablet devices will change.

 

米調査会社IDCによると、2012年第一四半期のスマートフォンの世界シェアにおいて、米アップルが29.1%、韓国サムスンが24.2%と首位争いで相拮抗している一方、ソニー、シャープといった日本メーカーは4.8%にも満たない劣勢状態である。

参考文献

・IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, May 1, 2012

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23455612

 

(Q5) Please give your idea about what competitive strategy Japanese manufacturer should take in order to survive today’s smartphone market.

 

【Article1】

CBC News Apple identifies 8 Samsung smartphones it wants banned, Aug 28, 2012

 

In the wake of its patent trial victory against Samsung Electronics Co., Apple has given a U.S. federal judge a list of eight Samsung products it wants pulled from store shelves and banned from the U.S. market, including popular Galaxy model smartphones.

 

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh asked for the list after a jury in San Jose last week slammed Samsung with a $1.05 billion US fine, finding that the South Korean technology giant had “willfully” copied Apple’s iPhone and iPad in creating and marketing the products. Samsung plans an appeal.

 

The products Apple wants off the market are all smartphones:

 

Galaxy S 4G

Galaxy S2 AT&T

Galaxy S2

Galaxy S2 T-Mobile

Galaxy S2 Epic 4G

Galaxy S Showcase

Droid Charge

Galaxy Prevail

Koh on June 26 banned the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from the U.S. market after finding it likely violated a “design patent.” Samsung is now asking for that ban to be lifted after the jury found the computer tablet didn’t infringe that particular patent, but it did find it infringed three of Apple’s software patents that cover the popular “bounce-back” and pinch-to-zoom features.

 

Samsung is expected to ask the judge to toss out the jury’s verdict as unsupported by the evidence. Failing that, the company says it will appeal the verdict to higher courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

September hearing could be delayed

The judge was to hear Apple’s demands for the sales bans on Sept. 20 but on Tuesday delayed that hearing until Dec. 6 after Samsung complained that it doesn’t have enough time to prepare.

 

The Sept. 20 hearing will now be devoted to Samsung’s request for the lifting of the tablet ban.

 

In addition to the sales bans, Apple also plans to ask the judge to triple the damages to $3.15 billion because of the jury’s finding that Samsung “willfully” copied Apple.

 

Galaxy S3 not affected

Apple filed its lawsuit in April of last year alleging that 28 Samsung smartphones and computer tablets had “slavishly copied” the iPhones and iPads. Samsung countered with its own claims that Apple used its wireless technology without proper compensation.

 

A nine-person jury in its verdict Friday unanimously agreed with Apple. Most of the damages were tied to Samsung’s smartphones. The jury rejected Samsung’s counterclaims.

 

Most of the Samsung products found to have “infringed’ Apple’s patent were older devices no longer being sold. The list Apple presented to the court on Monday represent devices it believes are still being sold in U.S. stores, including several versions of the company’s popular S2 phones introduced last year.

 

Samsung’s newest and hottest selling smartphone, the Galaxy S3, was not part of the lawsuit and is unaffected by the jury’s verdict.

 

The award represents about 1.5 per cent of Samsung’s annual revenue. Analysts said the embarrassment of the verdict is a bigger blow for Samsung than the financial setback.

 

Still, the question remains whether Samsung and other Apple competitors will have to redesign their smartphones to avoid infringing Apple’s patents. Most analysts agree the verdict sends a threatening message to device makers such as Samsung, which use Google’s Android operating system.

 

【Article2】

CBC News Apple’s patent claim against Samsung rejected by Tokyo court, Aug 30, 2012

 

A court in Tokyo on Friday dismissed Apple Inc.’s claim that Samsung had infringed on its patent – the latest ruling in the global legal battle between the two technology titans over smartphones.

 

The Japanese court case addressed only the synchronizing technology that allows media players to share data with personal computers and was not comparable in scope to the much larger victory that Apple won in the U.S. last week.

 

Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea, the world’s largest maker of phones, welcomed the Tokyo District Court ruling that its technology that allows media players and personal computers to share music files and other content did not infringe on Apple patents as confirming its “long-held position.”

 

“We will continue to offer highly innovative products to consumers and continue our contributions toward the mobile industry’s development,” the company said in a statement.

 

The Apple lawyer present at the courthouse declined comment, and the company said later it had no comment, including whether it intended to appeal. In the past, Apple has accused Samsung of copying Apple products.

 

Lawsuit dismissed

In a session lasting just a few minutes, Judge Tamotsu Shoji said he did not think Samsung products fell into the realm of Apple technology and dismissed the lawsuit, filed by Apple in August last year.

 

Apple, the Cupertino, Calif.-based maker of the hit iPhone and iPad, is embroiled in similar legal tussles around the world over whether Samsung smartphones, which rely on Google Inc.’s Android technology, illegally used Apple designs, ideas or technology.

 

In one such case, a jury in California ruled last week that Samsung products illegally used such Apple creations as the “bounce-back” feature when a user scrolls to an end image, and the ability to zoom text with a tap of a finger.

 

The jury awarded Apple $1 billion US in damages, and a judge is now evaluating Apple’s request to have eight Samsung products pulled from store shelves and banned from the U.S. market, including popular Galaxy model smartphones.

 

Samsung’s latest hit, Galaxy S3, was not part of the U.S. ruling.

 

More cases before Japanese courts

Friday’s ruling was the first held in Japan in the Samsung-Apple global court battle, but other technology is being contested by the two companies in separate legal cases in Japan.

 

Seo Won-seok, an analyst at Seoul-based Korea Investment & Securities, said the Tokyo verdict showed that the lawsuits around the world are largely isolated and may not be affected by Apple’s major victory in California.

 

“The favourable ruling for Samsung convinces me that lawsuits in other countries may play out differently from the one in the U.S.,” he said.

 

Apple products are extremely popular among Japanese consumers, but major Japanese carriers such as NTT DoCoMo sell Samsung smartphones as well. Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp. also makes smartphones and tablet devices similar to Samsung’s, using Android technology.

 

Samsung has sold more than 50 million Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 smartphones around the world. The legal battle also involves Samsung’s Tab device, which Apple claims infringes on patents related to the iPad tablet.

 

【Article3】

CBC News Samsung to sue Apple for LTE use in iPhone 5, Aug 31, 2012

 

Samsung will sue rival Apple for stealing LTE patents in the iPhone 5 device the latter will unveil tomorrow, a Korean newspaper reports.

 

The Korea Times said Tuesday that Seoul-based Samsung plans to sue Apple in Europe and the United States for infringing on a number of patents related to LTE (Long Term Evolution), the technology that’s soon to become standard in the next generation of cellphones.

 

TEXT, CHAT, CLICKA by-the-numbers look at how we use smartphones

“Samsung Electronics has decided to take immediate legal action against the Cupertino-based Apple. Countries in Europe and even the United States ― Apple’s home turf ― are our primary targets,” the paper quoted an unnamed industry source as saying.

 

On Wednesday, Cupertino-based Apple is expected to unveil the sixth version of its wildly popular iPhone at a press event in California. Among many new features, it’s believed the device will operate based on LTE technology, which allows for faster and more powerful cellular transmissions.

 

Last month, a U.S. judge order Samsung to pay more than $1 billion in penalties for infringing on a number of Apple patents in its popular line of Galaxy cellphones and tablet computers. The move to countersue is part of a worldwide battle for market share between the two companies, which has seen Samsung win smaller battles in its home turf of Korea and Japan while losing a major judgment in the key U.S. market.

 

The companies are fighting bitterly on many, but in effect are very interconnected. More than a quarter of the components in the last generation of the iPhone are supplied to Apple by Samsung manufacturing facilities.

 

Samsung’s hopes are no doubt buoyed by the actions of Taiwanese device maker HTC, which has already won a similar court battle with monolithic Apple surrounding the use of LTE technology.

 

Regardless of the outcome, the disputes are unlikely to see the device delayed or pulled from the shelves. The more likely outcome would be for the parties to agree out of court to settle and use each other’s technologies in each other’s devices while paying a fee for the rights.

 

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