NEWS: "Apple sues Samsung, claims it copied iPhone, iPad designs"

[ghosthunter]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/t...ow/8023822.cms

[SIZE="3"]Apple sues Samsung, claims it copied iPhone, iPad designs[/SIZE]
Javed Anwar | Apr 19, 2011, 10.20am IST


NEW DELHI: In one of biggest copyright cases in recent times, Apple has filed a case against Samsung in a US court, claiming the Korean giant infringed on its patents through Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab.

According to reports, Apple says that both Galaxy S, a smartphone released in June 2010, and Galaxy Tab, a tablet that too was launched last year, copies "the look and feel" of its products.

"Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smartphone products and computer tablets, Samsung chose to copy Apple's technology, user interface and innovative style in these infringing products," the lawsuit reportedly states.

Reports say that Apple is seeking injunctions, actual damages and punitive damages. The company also wants court to rule out that the alleged infringement was willful.

Both Apple and Samsung are competitors in the rapidly growing smartphone and tablet market. While Apple is considered the leader, Samsung has made impressive gains in the last two years, becoming one of the largest manufacturers of Android devices.

Galaxy S, launched by the Korean giant last year, became a breakthrough smartphone. It was widely considered to be the first Android handset that could stand its own ground against wildly-popular iPhone.

While Apple had traditionally held advantage in re-inventing the wheel and has broken new ground with its innovative products, Samsung's advantage is in manufacturing. This was put to good use by the company recently when caught off guard by the innovative design of Apple's iPad 2 in January, its engineers went back to the drawing board came out with a new design for next version of Galaxy Tabs.

Samsung announced the new Tabs in March, claiming they were the lightest and thinnest tablets in the world. It will be interesting to see Samsung's reply to the lawsuit as the company is also a major supplier for Apple. A4 and A5 processors that power iPhone 4 and iPad2, respectively, are manufactured by Samsung.

The Korean company is also a major manufacturer of flash memory. According iFixit, a firm that often analyses internal components of Apple products when they launch, both iPhone and iPad use flash memory chips made by Samsung. Recently, it was reported that Apple has started using Solid State Drives manufactured by Samsung in its MacBook Air laptops.

Apple in the last few years has also sued HTC, another company making Android phones, and Nokia for copyright infringement.

[Monseratto]

Hmm...feeling the heat from Android.

http://mobile.engadget.com/

Another aspect to these proceedings that shouldn't be overlooked is that, on the software front, they boil down to iOS versus Android (again). When Apple calls Samsung uninventive in its user interface, it's talking more about Android's perceived imitation of the iPhone's interface than whatever TouchWiz tweaks Samsung has slapped on top. And hey, if you're going to sue Google indirectly, you can't leave a major player like Samsung outside the courtroom, it just wouldn't be fair.

[marg]

APPLE should sue GOOGLE, not Samsung.

[ghosthunter]

APPLE should sue GOOGLE, not Samsung.

It's Samsung's product... so....

[mazingerZ]

Samsungs design has already been in the market for two years IMHO

[safeorigin]

well, intellectual property has its problems to begin with since ideas are immaterial. these laws just create an artificial scarcity of goods

...but that's just my opinion

[uls]

it's about android

diba android is free?

smartphone & tablet makers dont have to pay Google to use Android. kaya dami gumagawa ng Android smartphones and tablets

what Apple is doing is creating COST for smartphone & tablet makers that use Android

Apple sues Samsung, Samsung has to spend money to fight/settle the lawsuit

Apple sued HTC, HTC had to spend money to fight/settle the lawsuit

so everyone else who plans to use Android for their products now has to factor in the COST getting sued by Apple

so Android isnt really free na

Apple gives Google the finger

Apple smart ass

[tidus1203]

In this case I hope Apple loses the litigation. We really need some serious competition out there...

[uls]

even if Apple doesnt win, napagastos nila ang Samsung

i think that's the goal of Apple -- to make Android NOT free

galit kasi sila kay Google

[tidus1203]

But if AAPL loses, the case for further lawsuits in the future weakens and weakens... Kasi historical cases can be used as a basis for future similar lawsuits...

[Lucius]

Android is slow and ugly anyway, no offense to users of Android.

[hondaboot]

the Samsung Galaxy Ace looks so much like the Iphone

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAnfShoQZA0"]YouTube - Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 hands-on[/ame]

it's about time to sue them. taka nga ako ngaun lang nangyari


and yeah I agree. everyone in the business world hates google. personally, if Google will not be stopped talagang sila ang mag-cause ng economic downfall ng buong mundo.

they're using the Android as a free platform para nga naman magmukang free, so that yun main business nila which search engine ads hindi matapatan.

well, guess again Google. Facebook, IOS, Yahoo have all supported the bing search engine. it won't be long, and google will be down. sa news, nga nagbabala na ang CEO nila na mababawasan ang perks nila if they will not be able to deliver sa mga products nila particularly beating Facebook's like button. walang nangyari sa +1 nila

[hondaboot]

In this case I hope Apple loses the litigation. We really need some serious competition out there...

there's still windows. nagtataka nga ako sa yo *tidus at sinusuportahan mo yan google. alam mo ba ginawa nila sa IPO nila noon. read it and find out, you'll hate them

i've tried windows phone 7 and boy it's as responsive as apple. kase nga hindi free.

walang mapapala ang free, it will only make people lazy bec. they get it for free.

in the end it will still be Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs. Apple knows this and they'd rather have Microsoft as arch enemy than freeloading Google.

[shakatak70]

Magagalit talaga ang Apple.. ayan oh... yung N-310 naging SAMPLE

[goldencoil]

even if Apple doesnt win, napagastos nila ang Samsung

i think that's the goal of Apple -- to make Android NOT free

galit kasi sila kay Google

*sir uls, sa ganitong case, pwede din ba mag counter file ng suit yung Samsung pag natalo ang Apple para dun sa mga nagastos ng Samsung during the duration of the case?

[Monseratto]

Suing your supplier...iba talaga.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110419...etapplesamsung

Samsung vows counter-action over Apple patent suit

SEOUL (AFP) – Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it would take counter-action against Apple after the US firm filed suit alleging that the South Korean giant copied its smartphones and tablet computers.

Apple's lawsuit claims Samsung's mobile phones and Galaxy Tab imitated the iPhone and the iPad.

"Samsung will respond actively to this legal action taken against us through appropriate legal measures to protect our intellectual property," the South Korean firm said in a statement.

Samsung has been successfully developing its own core technologies and building up its intellectual property portfolio, it said.

Yonhap news agency quoted Samsung officials as saying they suspect Apple had violated Samsung's wireless technology patents.

"Apple is one of our key buyers of semiconductors and display panels. However, we have no choice but respond strongly this time," an unidentified official was quoted as saying.

Apple was Samsung's second-largest client in 2010 after Japan's Sony Corp, accounting for four percent of the South Korean firm's 155 trillion won ($142 billion) annual revenues.

Apple accused Samsung of copying the look, product design, packaging and user interface of its products, in a lawsuit filed Friday with a US District Court in San Francisco and quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

It claimed Samsung has violated various Apple patents and trademarks.

"Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smartphone products and computer tablets, Samsung chose to copy Apple's technology, user interface and innovative style in these infringing products," the Journal quoted Apple's complaint as saying.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab has been the best-selling rival to the iPad, which has dominated the growing market for the touchscreen devices.

The legal action came as Samsung is scheduled to release the Galaxy S2 smartphone in the domestic market next week.

Patent lawsuits are a regular occurrence among technology giants in the United States. Apple is currently embroiled in disputes with Finland's Nokia, Taiwan's HTC and US handset maker Motorola among others.

[uls]

*sir uls, sa ganitong case, pwede din ba mag counter file ng suit yung Samsung pag natalo ang Apple para dun sa mga nagastos ng Samsung during the duration of the case?

i guess. i'm not a lawyer... i can't answer that

pero hassle parin diba?

Apple is out to make life difficult for product makers that use Android

[Monseratto]

Can Samsung stop supplying components to Apple since the case is done in bad faith...?

[myk384]

Before suing Samsung, why not sue those enterprising Chinese businessmen who rip off Apple's designs.

[ghosthunter]

Before suing Samsung, why not sue those enterprising Chinese businessmen who rip off Apple's designs.

because Apple can't find their address in China.