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Apple Launches New Legal Attack On Samsung

Posted by samzenpus on from the history-repeating dept.

walterbyrd writes "Apple Inc has asked a federal court in California to block Samsung Electronics Co Ltd from selling its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, alleging patent violations. In a suit filed last week in San Jose, Apple said the Galaxy Nexus infringes on patents underlying features customers expect from its products. Those include the ability to unlock phones by sliding an image and to search for information by voice."

2 of 490 comments (clear)

  1. Ars puts the story in some more context... by IrrepressibleMonkey · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/apple-launching-sidelong-attacks-against-google-with-new-lawsuits-in-us.ars

    Including a breakdown on FOSS Patents blog:

    http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012/02/apple-requests-us-preliminary.html

  2. Didn't ork in the Netherlands, let's try CA? by icebraining · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Slide-to-unlock patent in question: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7657849.PN.&OS=PN/7657849&RS=PN/7657849

    It's important to mention that a Dutch court where Apple tried to claim infrigement on the same patent has already ruled it as invalid, after Samsung presented the Neonode N1m as prior art.

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