Once is not custom: Apple and Samsung compete in a new trial is taking right now in the United States. At the heart of the battle , as always, new patents and a sum of two billion required by Apple for repair.
he film seems to repeat itself endlessly. This new trial is played with the same players: Apple, Samsung and Judge Lucy Koh already in charge of arbitration on a previous case between the two competitors.
The dispute relates to change over patents that Samsung infringed by Apple. These five patents were supposed to cover five different features intelligent links, expanded search, unlock the screen, synchronizing applications and associated write the word suggestion.
In short, many features Apple defends, as sole owner, as his own creations. California firm expects an addition of nearly two billion dollars based on a simple estimation: the damage is estimated at $ 40 per device using these technologies. Samsung integrates them into a dozen models.
To defend themselves, Samsung accuses Apple's turn copy. This episode of the war between the two historic rivals expected to last two months.