Samsung has vowed to fight Apple and its attempts to ban the sale of its Galaxy S3 smartphone in the US.
Samsung defends Galaxy S3 against Apple attack
Apple is trying to stop sales of the Samsung Galaxy S3 by hitching the highly rated new Android smartphone to its existing case against the Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Samsung opposes Apple's attempt to link the motions together.
Samsung Galaxy S3 video review
Apple claims the Galaxy S3 infringes at least two of its patents.
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"The Galaxy S3 will... irreparably harm Apple for the same reasons as the Galaxy Nexus, but on a much greater scale," said Apple lawyer Mark Lyon.
"The central premise of Samsung's opposition to Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction was that the Galaxy Nexus had not sold sufficiently well to cause severe enough harm to Apple.
“While that argument is legally and factually untenable, it is entire inapplicable with respect to the Galaxy S3, which reportedly will sell phenomenally well immediately upon launch."
Samsung denies the accusation, and has promised its customers that the launch would proceed as planned on June 21.
Samsung dismissed Apple’s request as "without merit".
Any ban "would only serve to disrupt consumers' access to the latest innovative technology," pleaded the Korean tech giant.
"We will vigorously oppose the request and demonstrate to the court that the Galaxy S3 is innovative and distinctive," said Samsung.
"We would also like to assure consumers that the US launch and sales of the Galaxy S III will proceed as planned."
See also: Samsung Galaxy S3 vs Apple iPhone 4S comparison review
Patents Apple alleges Samsung has infringed
The patents defended by the iPhone maker are US Patent No. 8,086,604 relating to an universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system, and Patent No. 5,946,647 regarding a system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data.
Universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system:
“The present invention provides convenient access to items of information that are related to various descriptors input by a user, by means of a unitary interface which is capable of accessing information in a variety of locations, through a number of different techniques. Using a plurality of heuristic algorithms to operate upon information descriptors input by the user, the present invention locates and displays candidate items of information for selection and/or retrieval. Thus, the advantages of a search engine can be exploited, while listing only relevant object candidate items of information.“
System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data:
“A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives from an application running concurrently data having recognizable structures, uses a pattern analysis unit, such as a parser or fast string search function, to detect structures in the data, and links relevant actions to the detected structures. The application program interface communicates with the application running concurrently, and transmits relevant information to the user interface. Thus, the user interface can present and enable selection of the detected structures, and upon selection of a detected structure, present the linked candidate actions. Upon selection of an action, the action processor performs the action on the detected structure.“
Samsung Galaxy S3 release dates
The smartphone was launched in May in the UK.
Samsung said earlier this month that the Galaxy S III will be available in the US starting this month from five carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and US Cellular.
Comments
Shadyblue said: on the other hand Apple have a right to protect their invention And i can see that Samsung cheated Apple in some other way like copying siri voice not only on ipad but only on smartphone Apple means for me is the higher quality of brand of celphone and its because of the apple popularity Samsung try to defeat Apple just because they want to be more higher than apple to reach the position and to be number one of the world Apple is from american people and samsung is for korean people And thats what they areSamsung get away from Apple Build your own And dont try to copy anything from apple Samsung is like the soldier who wants to destroy their enimy Samsung like something new to defeat apple hate Samsung
Johnvender said: Ha thats apples fault if they didnt take their sweet time releasing their product They would be in this mess
MerdaGo Sharp-tongue said: send apple to the museum for technological dinosaurs
Arnar1987 said: why gay is being gay a bad thing stop using gay like its a bad thing
Toku said: Agree the world needs to slap Apple for keeping technology out of reach for those who cant afford their ridiculously high pricedbut great quality devices the world needs more open source
Mo said: Couldnt have said it better apple is just scared of losing out to the new big fish of the cellular worldGROW UP APPLE learn to share and admit defeat when you see it coming
Tony said: Lets hope the judge who will handle this case has the common sense like rest of the world
Galaxy said: Apple u r gonna lose so why try fighting u r making ur self look like the bad guy here
Wassup D said: Easy now lets not stoop to name calling I am getting the s3 for now but next merry go round which ever phone has a transreflective screen I am getting be it apple or sammy Apple the 800-lb juggernaut were to bring manufacturing back the USA would tempt me to buy there products as well but till then I am going to enjoy my S3
Soner Latif said: Apple are gay They always try to ban Samsung from selling stuffUp yours Tim Cook you fagbrain
Little_red97 said: this is pathetic appledontlike rival phonecompanysevery timethere is a phone that might get more popular than thereiPhonethey make sure it cant get out -- they are that rich and theydontwant to lose money so they just sue every othercompanysand rip of there customers being aiPhone3gs user imnot happy apple had a update that got hacked andIdidntget tolduntilIcomplained my device is crashing then they said about it and saidIneed to update it from my mac my mac broke and now myiPhoneis frozen and half of its features wont work NOT IMPRESSED Imgetting the new galaxy s3 screw apple --
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Carlos Augusto Davila said: Apples supremacy has come to an end because two android phone manufacturers are making phones just as good if not better than the iphone Samsung and HTC are going to take a big chunk of Apple profits and the only way Apple can gain that back is by trying to keep them from selling those phones Iphone 5 is going to have to be the best phone ever not just a simple upgrade like the 4 4s in order for Apple to gain some terrain back
Guest said: Here we go again apple always gets scared when something better comes out
iwantthatphone said: Are we all losing the ability to think logically and reasonably that is and turning into a thoughtless herdperhaps because of too much TV musicgames marketing hypes etc All technology companies learn from and improve upon eachother Its an evolution notrevolution There are only so manythings light bulb airplane car etcthat can be considered asinvention or innovation If you havebeen in the computerstechnology field long enough you would know that whatyou see in smartphones today existed long before and are simply enhancements ornatural progression or advancementThey are definitely not INNOVATIONs or INVENTIONs If companies like Nokia Palm BlackberryMortorola Fujitsu Sony Toshibastarted putting patent and interllectual bs on everysingle thing they do including aestheticscompanies like Apple would not exist and we would have only company ineach industry All jeans looksimilar All Walkmans were similar in the80s All LCDLED monitorsTVs aresimilar All cars are similar withairbag and WIFI and navigation optionsIf the first car company that put a seat belt air bag or navigation incars patented them as inventions orinnovations imagine what your car wouldbe like today perhaps with only one car company leftOh the stylingissue Come on look at the fashionindustry Bootcuts and straightcuts are out and skinny jeans and flowerpatterns are in Do fashion companies put patents and sue each other Is that really one companys invention iPhone looks cutegood in its own way sortof like Mini Cooper but many people much prefer other brands and styles Do they look alike Yes and noYou be the judge BTW many peoplebought Motorolla HTC LG and Samsung phones because they dont look likeiPhone and are cheaper and better in other ways Many people dont like that chunky and boxylook with small screen and extremely thick bezels Its a personal choice Alsoif Apples logic or philosophy was to be followed only 15 inch computer monitors and 30 inchLCDLED TVs with thick bezels areergonomically useful suitable and appropriate for human beings Oh software and the notion of features Context drivensearch and voice recognition existed long before in the software industry Unless someone literally took your sourcecode and used it without permission it should not be considered illegal By the way in todays world there is somethingcalled open source and itsvery popular And it appears none ofthe companies in the dispute did that stealing source code What they did was theyimplemented their own version of the same or similarfeatures A good analogywould be graphical user interface and drag-and-drop that virtuallyall modern software have Can onecompany sue the other company because it believes it invented thosethings If that was the case we wouldbe no Firefox no Windows no iOSThere would be only one Web browser OS mouse keyboard andmonitor in the world BTW doesnt Apple use a version of UNIXthat was invented long before iOS came aboutNo one technology company has the rights to the features andevolution Otherwise wewould still be living in caves Lets stop the non-sense