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As expected, Samsung has filed a lawsuit against Apple’s latest iPhone — the iPhone 5 — alleging the smartphone infringes patents it holds. Commenting on the action in a statement given to Reuters, Samsung said: “We have little choice but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations and intellectual property rights.”
We’ve contacted Samsung for further comment and details of the disputed patents and will update if we hear back. Samsung provided the following full statement: “We have always preferred to compete in the marketplace with our innovative products, rather than in a courtroom. However, Apple continues to take aggressive legal action that will restrict market competition. Under these circumstances, we have little recourse but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations and intellectual property rights.”
At the time of writing Apple had also not responded to a request for comment.
According to Florian Mueller of the FOSS patents blog, the lawsuit was filed about an hour before the Northern District Court of Californian’s Judge Koh’s dissolved a preliminary injunction banning sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the U.S. — an overhang from another big bout of patent litigation between the two companies in which Apple won damages of more than $1 billion.
“Samsung formally filed a request with the court in a parallel Apple v. Samsung two-way litigation (which started in February 2012) to add the iPhone 5 to the list of products accused of infringing eight Samsung patents
VIA : TECH CRUNCH
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