Cold War between Samsung and Apple

Once again there is cold war between Apple and Samsung.

The tit-for-tat battle between Samsung and Apple over patent infringement rages on. Apple got permission to see prototypes for upcoming Samsung phones and tablets last week. Samsung wasn’t about to take the ruling lying down, so they submitted their own motion, demanding that Apple turn over prototypes for its future products, including the iPhone 5 and the iPad 3, for inspection by Samsung’s legal team.

When Apple initially filed suit against Samsung in April, they pointed to similarities between the iPhone and iPad and the Samsung Galaxy S line of phones and the Galaxy Tab tablets as indicators that the design and trade dress of Apple products had been violated, and that Samsung had tried specifically to make the Galaxy products look like Apple products in order to sell more of them. Samsung promptly countersued, claiming that Apple violated over 10 of Samsung’s patents in its devices.

Apple’s motion for Samsung to disclose its prototypes is a little different from Samsung’s motion. First of all – as Apple pointed out in court – Samsung can’t claim that their intellectual property or marketing would be damaged by Apple getting their hands on new Samsung devices. Samsung has been actively discussing, marketing, and even giving away its upcoming products, with over 5,000 of the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets gifted to Google I/O attendees. That lack of secrecy was one reason the San Diego judge ruled in Apple’s favor.

Source: Geek

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