Apple vs Samsung lawsuit, whose side are you?:
Apple Inc. has been involved in numerous patent lawsuits against its competitors. One of its most recent and controversial one, is the patent lawsuit against Samsung. As the trial comes to a close, we want to whose side are you taking?
We’re not going to discuss the technicalities of the trial, but in a nutshell Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung revolves around two things, Design and User Interface.
In terms of design, we have to agree devices involved in this trial (25 to be exact, including the Galaxy S and S2) do bare resemblance to Apple’s design in some degree but not entirely. Regarding the user interface, Apple claims that Samsung copied three of their patented technologies for the TouchWiz UI which involves multiple gestures scrolling, zooming and panning and “scrollback”.
Samsung isn’t just going away without a fight as they also file a patent lawsuit against the Cupertino company which involves infringing their patent over 3GPP and Utility technologies and using it on the iPhone and iPad.
Photo credit: iJailbreak
Of course with any other lawsuit there’s always money involved. The stakes are high for both companies. If proven guilty, Apple’ asking a total over $2 billion from Samsung for the damages that the patent infringement has caused. As for Samsung, the South Korean tech giant’s asking price for their patent lawsuit is little over USD14 for every iPhone and iPad sold worldwide. iPad units sold alone amass to approximately 67 million as of April of this year, so go figure.
The case was stated, the evidences were presented, and closing arguments were said; now it’s up to the jury to decide whether or not the Samsung is guilty of infringing Apple’s patents or the other way around. It’s going to be interesting to see the outcome of this trial.
Apple Inc. has been involved in numerous patent lawsuits against its competitors. One of its most recent and controversial one, is the patent lawsuit against Samsung. As the trial comes to a close, we want to whose side are you taking?
We’re not going to discuss the technicalities of the trial, but in a nutshell Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung revolves around two things, Design and User Interface.
In terms of design, we have to agree devices involved in this trial (25 to be exact, including the Galaxy S and S2) do bare resemblance to Apple’s design in some degree but not entirely. Regarding the user interface, Apple claims that Samsung copied three of their patented technologies for the TouchWiz UI which involves multiple gestures scrolling, zooming and panning and “scrollback”.
Samsung isn’t just going away without a fight as they also file a patent lawsuit against the Cupertino company which involves infringing their patent over 3GPP and Utility technologies and using it on the iPhone and iPad.
Photo credit: iJailbreak
Of course with any other lawsuit there’s always money involved. The stakes are high for both companies. If proven guilty, Apple’ asking a total over $2 billion from Samsung for the damages that the patent infringement has caused. As for Samsung, the South Korean tech giant’s asking price for their patent lawsuit is little over USD14 for every iPhone and iPad sold worldwide. iPad units sold alone amass to approximately 67 million as of April of this year, so go figure.
The case was stated, the evidences were presented, and closing arguments were said; now it’s up to the jury to decide whether or not the Samsung is guilty of infringing Apple’s patents or the other way around. It’s going to be interesting to see the outcome of this trial.
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