The announcement is the latest twist in a patent battle between the two tech titans. Last month, Apple asked that a series of Samsung products – including the Galaxy S III – be added to the patent infringement suit between the mobile giants.
Samsung was ordered by a US jury in August to pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages for illegally copying iPhone and iPad features for its flagship Galaxy S smartphones. It has appealed the ruling, depicting the verdict as “a loss” for consumers and contending that Apple had “manipulated” the patent system.
Since then, two separate rulings by courts in Japan and the Netherlands have dismissed Apple’s claims of patent infringement.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 30th, 2012.
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