Seems like the violations are software-only (slide to unlock for example), so an Android update by October 13 should solve their problem...or am I missing something?
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What I don't understand is, if EU don't have software patents, how that ruling is even possible ?
They have design patents, which are even more insidious. These were added in 2003 and didn't get much interest accept from the big fashion houses trying to stop counterfeits from entering their territory.
As you can see the law has been widely spun out of it's original scope to include all types of things design related.
And initially I thought that EPO patents didn't applied to my country (Switzerland), being outside of the EU: well, I'm wrong...
Slide to unlock was not found to be a violation.
Do you think Samsung could get an update out in under two months?
In most circumstances, no. When the motivation is update or have your products removed from stores, I'd think you'd be surprised how quick Samsung can be.
In addition, they don't have to update EVERYTHING, just those few things... The next update could be an emergency release addressing just those things, and then a later update could bring everything they've been working on.
That's how I'd do it, unless the next update already had those fixed and it was very, very close anyhow.
It's likely they have been working on a fix "just in case" even before the ruling was delivered.
actually, yes! see pieter's remark up top and this (translated) article where their lawyer says they'll do just that:
Maybe.
Seeing how much difficulty they had supporting the 1st Generation Galaxy and updating the device in a timely manner, probably not.
If it's only the gallery that need an update, they could push it through the market I think.