The Apple-Samsung story continues to feed the corporate gossip tabloids and is the hottest topic in the tech-world. The 1.05 billion $ jury verdict against Samsung didn’t quench Apple’s fury and it seeks a ban on sales of eight smartphone models in the U.S and more Samsung products keep on getting added to this list.
Now for a change, Samsung in a desperate attempt to fight back has accused Apple of hampering consumer’s choices through legal means. This upsurge happened when Apple said that it is looking into stopping the sales of Galaxy SIII smartphones in the United States. Apple has accused Facebook of “flooding the market with copycat products.” This new lawsuit that Apple filed could get sales of the Galaxy collection halted even before a trial. This will hamper Samsung considerably as it were the sales of S III that drove Samsung’s quarterly profit to a record and was responsible for it acing in the smartphone market.
In the litigation filed in San Jose court on Friday, Apple accused Samsung that 21 of its products including smartphones, tablets and media players revealed after August 2011 were mere imitation of Apple’s technology. Instead of innovating and working on its own technology Samsung just blindly copied Apple’s design and interface. U.S District judge Lucy Koh ruled that the hearing on Apple’s request on permanent ban of sales of eight Samsung smartphones in the U.S will be on December 6. The hearing on Samsung’s request to lift the preliminary sales ban on Galaxy Tab in scheduled to be on September 20.
Samsung denied Apple’s claims in a court filing in April and made a statement that it will take “necessary legal measures” to continue the sale of its products in the States and accused Apple of hampering consumer demands.
The Cupertino, a company based in California has accused Samsung of using its eight patents illegally. One patent is concerned with the technology of how a device retrieves information from a computer and other about the use of gestures on a touchscreen to unlock a phone.
Samsung and Apple together control over half of the global market in electronics and they are involved in legal conflicts in other continents like Asia and Europe too. The outcome of this case is going to have serious consequences in the tech world. If I were a soothsayer I would say that in the coming days a lot of companies will need patents from Apple.
