Samsung Gets Sued By Apple For $2 Billion, Gets Google Involved
This time Apple has sued Samsung for $2 billion over five iPhone related software patents and Samsung is suing back over infringing two of its patents by U.S. company for $7 million, reports FoxNews. “Samsung recognized that it simply did not have a product that could compete successfully against the iPhone,” McElhinny told the jury. “They chose to use our inventions because they believed that those inventions were fundamental to success.”
The Apple lawyers have showed that the internal slides of Samsung had ‘Slide To Unlock’, and said the patented belonged to them. "They don't own the only way to search on a phone, they don't own the only way to sync, they don't own the only way to unlock with a swipe," Peter Quinn replied back.
Apple’s head of worldwide marketing, Phillip Schiller justified that the iPhone like features on the Samsung phones pinched its reputation for innovation. But Samsung bounced back saying that Android Engineers were working on some of these features much before iPhone came in and claims that two of Apple’s features like Face Time calling and photo services infringed on its patents.
The Apple-Samsung war has been taken to the courts of many countries across continents including British, South Korean, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Australian and U.S. The latest one happening in the U.S. Court of Law will be a high octane drama to be watched by many across the globe. The stakes for the Samsung are huge while Apple nearly has nothing much to loose.
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