subject: Samsung And Apple's Patent War Extends To The Asia-pacific Area [print this page] Samsung's legal battle with Apple has latest developments. According to the report, Samsung Electronics announced that it has submitted injunction request to the Japanese and Australian court to ban the sales of iPhone4S in the two countries. The patent battle between the two technology giants is heating up.
Since the patent lawsuit is started in the April of this year, Samsung and Apple have been filing lawsuits for over 20 patents in nine countries and regions. And they accused each other of "obvious infringement." But, Samsung and Apple have lost several times in the disputes. In early September, Samsung Electronics said that once Apple sells iPhone4S in France and Italy, it will immediately apply for embargo. Samsung will certainly take these measures.
In the ensuing time in Europe, Samsung Electronics announced that, Apple's new phone iPhone4S infringed Samsung's several patents. The iPhone4S violated the two patents related data security and transmission owned by Samsung Electronics in France. In Italy it has violated Samsung's two patents involved in data recovery. This morning, Samsung Electronics formally submitted applications to the Court of Milan, Italy to ban the sales of iPhone4S.
Two weeks later, Samsung Electronics will extend the ban application to the Asia-Pacific region. According to foreign media reports, the company said in a statement that they can not tolerate Apple's continued infringement of its patents and free use of its technology. Samsung Electronics will take all possible action to protect its own intellectual property rights.
Chang believes that Samsung will also use their own patents to get more space for the growth of business. In the April of this year, Apple sued Samsung Electronics of copying Apple's technology and innovative style and the user interface. After that it applied to ban the sales of Samsung's related products in the U.S. market, including smart phones and Samsung GalaxyS4G GalaxyTab10.1 tablet. The relevant industry believes that the current series of Samsung attack have a direct relationship with GalaxyTab10.1 tablet is banned in Europe and Australia.
The statistics show that Apple is Samsung's largest buyers of LCD display and chips. It is estimated that Apple this year will procure about $ 7.8 billion worth of parts from Samsung Electronics. But this did not delay the proceedings pace of Samsung Electronics. We need to see how Apple deal with it, but in the future it will certainly last a long time. The patent litigation between the two sides has become a puzzling deadlock.
