Deja sue as Apple starts new litigation against Samsung

Posted on 14 February 2012

Here’s a little litigation déjà vu. It seems Apple will be keeping the lawyers on for a little bit longer, adding a new round of patent litigation against Samsung to the unsurprising appeal of last year’s case. In the United States Apple has filed new patent infringement claims, this time the focus is on the the Galaxy Nexus, the newest of the Nexus series and the Ice Cream Sandwich flagship phone. Filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday last week, Apple is seeking “a preliminary injunction regarding Samsung’s new Galaxy Nexus, which infringes multiple key Apple patents, is essential to prevent immediate and irreparable harm to Apple”. The patents in question are: United States Patent No 5,946,647 - dubbed the ‘data tapping’ patent,…

Categories: Copyright & intellectual property, Desktops & devices

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2011: A case oddity

Posted on 24 August 2011

Here’s something a bit cute from the Apple v Samsung case: Samsung has submitted in response to patent infringement claims regarding its TouchWiz/Android UI Vis-à-vis Apple’s iOS that Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) features screens and tablet computers that should be considered prior art for the general design of the iPad. REMINDER Back in April, Apple lodged proceedings against Samsung in the US District Court for Northern California, alleging that a number of Samsung mobile devices infringed Apple patents and trademarks related to the iProducts. There’s been a number of updates to the case, but check my original post for those. They argued that Kubrick’s table: “… has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat…

Categories: Copyright & intellectual property

Apple to Samsung: ‘Hey, don’t copy me!’

Posted on 19 April 2011

And there’s another major IP case to watch in the mobile devices market: Apple has filed against Samsung in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the Galaxy S, Epic 4G, (Google/Samsung collab) Nexus S and the Galaxy Tabs infringe on patents and trademarks it holds for technology related to the iOS, iPhone 4 and iPad. Presumably of course this also extends to the Galaxy S II, given the design and UI similarities in the i9000 and the new Galaxy S. Basically the crux of their 38-page claim (according to The Wall Street Journal) is that the Samsung devices look and act like the Apple devices: “Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smart…