Samsung targets yet more Apple iPads and iPods in latest patent battle
Samsung has added Apple's iPad mini, iPad 4 and iPod touch to a list of devices it claims infringe its patents.
Samsung has asked a Californian court to add Apple's latest devices to a patent case which already targets the previous iPod touch, iPad and more recently, the iPhone 5. The latest products to be added into the fray include the fifth-generation iPod touch, iPad mini and iPad 4.
The document states that: "Good cause exists to amend Samsung’s contentions because Apple's new products were not yet available when Samsung submitted its original contentions on June 15, 2012."
Samsung claims the list of Apple's devices infringe a patent relating to the 'built-in speaker and an external audio output port'.
If Samsung is granted the leave to add the list of iDevices, the court case won't begin until next year. It's just the latest snippet in a long lasting battle between the smartphone and tablet makers which never seems to end.
This week rumours of the Galaxy S4 smartphone have surfaced suggesting it will have a full HD 5in screen, a quad-core A15 processor and a 13Mp camera.
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Comments
Dhomer24 said: Yes I agree Seems really daft bringing a speaker and audio output port into the equation I would have thought it much more technical I had a Samsung S11 and hated it I have an LG TV Im really happy with it
ML4 said: Sorry so absurd
ML4 said: This just wants me to buy more Apple products just to stuff it up Samsung I only have 2 Samsung products a TV and Blu-ray player Not particularly good ones at that Have you ever heard anything do absurd as a patent on a speaker and audio output port