If you somehow thought the new iPhone 5 would escape the wrath that is the Apple v. Samsung patent war, prepare to be mistaken. A U.S. court filing uncovered by Reuters reveals that “Samsung anticipates that it will file, in the near future, a motion to amend its infringement contentions to add the iPhone 5 as an accused product.”
The filing comes a week after Apple announced the iPhone 5, which hits stores on Friday. Apple says it sold more than 2 million iPhone 5 units within the first 24 hours after the device became available for pre-order on September 14.
“Based on information currently available, Samsung expects that the iPhone 5 will infringe the asserted Samsung patents-in-suit in the same way as the other accused iPhone models,” reads the filing, which was submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California late Wednesday. “Samsung plans to file a motion to amend its infringement contentions to address the iPhone 5 as soon as it has had a reasonable opportunity to analyze the device.”
Samsung and Apple are currently embroiled in patent lawsuits in 10 countries around the world.
In a separate statement, Samsung asserted that “Apple continues to take aggressive legal measures that will limit market competition. Under these circumstances, we have little choice but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations and intellectual property rights.”
Apple Korea responded to Samsung’s latest pushback, saying that the company values “originality and innovation,” and that it makes “products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy.”
Apple won a sweeping $1.05 billion victory over Samsung at the end of August when a court decided that Samsung had violated a number of its design and software patents.
The court also ruled that Apple had not violated any of Samsung’s patents, a decision that has clearly not stymied Samsung’s commitment to fighting back against Apple.
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I hope they win one and maybe the should start paying off people the way i’m sure some dirty dealings are handled at Apple.
Do you have proof of the “dirty dealings” you accuse Apple of, or are you just talking out of your… I’m going to assume it’s the latter.
Sarcasm.
Umm … actually, yeah. What about the Apple employees that searched that guy’s house in San Francisco a year or so ago? They inferred they were police and threatened the guy with jail (or something like that) if he didn’t let them search for the iPhone 4S prototype (I think that was it) that an Apple employee had lost.
I can say apple police, in which an apple engineer lost an iphone prototype and convinced a resident they were part of the police department and searched the resident’s home without a court order (warrant).
The august decision appears to have an apple mole, the foreman of the jury was sued by sea-gate that is partly controlled by Samsung. The foreman never told the court he was sued.
iphone owned by cisco, apple tried to get the rights from them several times and failed, so apple released it anyways and what ever apple said to cisco got them to relent.
Apple used to sue or threaten to sue users who modified their apple devices until a court said because it was not a lease (rent) the device apple had no case against individual user.
Samsung is trying to double tip, Apple is already paying Intel and other radio chip manufactures royalties for the 8 LTE patents Samsung owns, which get funneled back to Samsung through those manufactures. Apple also owns 4 patents on LTE, which Samsung pays royalties to the same radio chip manufactures for, which get paid back to Apple. This will likely be thrown out of court.
It was last reported that Samsung revoked or setup the condition that apple can not have the chips installed with their patients.
Samsung did that in response to apple’s lawsuits against them.
Fortunately, they can’t revoke it w/o refunding to Intel (Intel has already paid Samsung), and they have not nor plan to do that, so until they do, they can’t revoke it, else they’d be double dipping.
Wait, if Apple won the suit then why would Samsung add another device to the list? I think I’m missing something here…
Samsung is a vicious copycat that makes minor improvements and uses its manufacturing stranglehold to capture market share and kill innovation.
If Samsung was a copycat then its devices would be near same as the iPhone. I guess someone here cant handle the truth. fucking cuntface.
Yeah seems like that.
I think this fight will continue for ever
This getting too hilarious and beyond ridiculous. It should read: “Samsung, in a hissie-fit, files a revenge suit against Apple over iPhone 5.” What fun. Apple, who needs more $billions like it needs a hole-in-the-head meets Samsung who has been convicted of actually infinging on Apple designs and patents. Now Samsung wants to sue because Apple “may have, might have stolen design patents, et al, from us, but we won’t know until we tear apart an iPhone 5 and examine it. In the meantime, we file based on no hard evidence at the moment.” These two, and others, are Tit for Tat spoiled brats and I for one wouldn’t participate in this madness by buying any of their products probably slave made in China. Can you say “frivolous”?