Seoul hits at Obama’s Apple veto in patent dispute

South Korea’s trade ministry on Monday criticised the US president’s weekend veto of a patent infringement ruling against Apple, expressing “concern over the possible negative impacts that this kind of decision could have on Samsung Electronics’ patent rights”.

Mr Obama vetoed a June ruling by the US International Trade Commission banning a range of Apple devices – which the court ruled had infringed a Samsung patent – from being imported into the US.

So basically , what we have here is the USA saying "we don't care that one of our countries companies is infringing on your copyright. But don't you dare do it to us. "

Aha.

His intervention over the weekend on behalf of Apple in the first case was made because the Samsung patent involved technology that is key to technology standards, potentially giving the South Korean company “undue leverage” in licensing negotiations, according to the reasoning for the veto.

"Technology standards" . In other words, the USA gets to make the standards with their for-profit companies and get that "undue leverage" but other countries do not.

Is it just me , or did US Copyright law just become a club for beating all non-usa companies to death ? I'm sure all the americans are cheering , but I'm not an american.

Basically , the US copyright system can now be ignored , since it is demonstrating a bias in favor of the USA and against everyone else.