The continuing legal battle between Apple and Samsung gets another turn as Samsung featuring filed motion for an injunction on Apple company iphone 4S sales in Japan and Australia. Earlier, the Korean company said that it's going to try to ban sales of the iPhone 4S in France and Italy just a day after its launch since the handset allegedly infringes on its patents.
"See how to avoid of the violations, Samsung believes the sale of such Apple devices could be banned," Samsung said from a statement.
Concurrently, Apple on its part says it owns a “thicket of patents,” but would only agree licensing “lower level patents.” This basically means that Apple is not there for the investment like Microsoft containing reportedly signed manages Samsung, HTC as well as other Android phone makers, which have to pay Redmond an undisclosed sum for every single handset they make.
Apple’s goal is apparently radically different - it wants to keep some of its inventions unique to iOS.
Florian Mueller of FOSS patents went over Apple’s filings and summarized Cupertino’s strategy:
"Apple optimizes for product differentiation. Apple isn't Microsoft, which concluded a license address Samsung and also eight other Android device makers. Those two companies have different business models generally and with respect to patents for example."
So far, the legal battle between Apple and Samsung is won by the California-based company. Apple has secured injunctions against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia and Germany, while Samsung has become denied its claim to get a ban on iPhone and iPad sales on the Netherlands.
Stateside, the legal battle continues. The latest hearing had US Judge Lucy Koh show the iPad and Galaxy Tab sideways and asking Samsung’s attorney what one was theirs. The attorney could not reply right now and had to resort to help from others from Samsung’s legal team.
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