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,…
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