Samsung sues Apple for the center notifications iOS

Renouncing all claims to Apple in Europe, Samsung initiated a new prosecution competitor in South Korea, according to a local portal iNews24. The Korean manufacturer has accused Apple of violating patents related to the Centre notification system iOS.

Notification Center has become one of the most notable innovations in iOS 5, released in 2011. Apple introduced it some time after the occurrence of such a system of alerts in Android. This section allows you to monitor the activity of the internal iPhone and iPad: incoming mail, SMS, calendar events, notification applications, news from the Game Center and other important events. It also contains two widgets - weather and stocks.

It is learned that Samsung claims to Apple on technology, not as fundamental for the industry (the so-called SEP-patents, Standards Essential Patents). No details about the latest lawsuit Korean company to a competitor yet. Florien Mueller of FOSS Patents notes that Google has recently patented a similar function in the U.S.

Recently, the Center received notification Apple integration with social networking site Facebook, and was included in the desktop platform OS X Moutain Lion.

Samsung withdraws all cases against Apple in Europe

Samsung heed the requests of Judge Lucy Koh, who in August ordered the company to pay Apple $ 1 billion for the illegal copying of its technology and appealed to the litigants called for eventually a settlement agreement. Korean manufacturer has issued a statement that he was withdrawing all claims against Apple in Europe, which deals with disputes between the two companies.

Apple made a truce with the purpose of protecting the interests of users, according to Samsung. "We believe that it is better to compete in the market, not in court," - said representatives of the Korean side. Company to unilaterally withdraw lawsuits against Apple in Germany, UK, France, Italy and the Netherlands. In this case, the vendor will continue the trial to get damages in intellectual property disputes.

However, Samsung continues to believe that the size of Apple billion compensation should be reduced by a few hundred million dollars, and in August the jury used the wrong legal standard when determining its size. The company can appeal, which will delay the court decision and delay the proceedings for years. Apple, in turn, is going to get $ 535 million more, as the court has decided that Samsung violated its patents deliberately.

Koreans issued a statement shortly after the court denied Apple, demanded a complete ban on the U.S. sale 26 smartphones and tablets first. It is obvious that while reconciliation applies only in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, the fight is still going on.

Former Apple designer smartphone Samsung confused with the iPhone

In federal court in San Jose continued hearings on the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung. On the eve of a witness by the American side madea former graphic designer in California producer Susan Kerr. She has worked in Cupertino from 1982 to 1986, and before the trial of the corporation appealed to her as a competent expert in interface design smartphones.

After a study of 11 mobile devices, Samsung, including the Galaxy S, Captivate, and Epic 4G, Kerr said in court that the design and layout graphics application on the main screen of the smartphone "substantially similar" icon in the iPhone, it even messed up the gadgets. She believes that the application icons on your smart phone displays violate the patents Apple, which relate to the appearance and design of the desktop iPhone.

"I see similarities in grid applications - in rows of four icons, colors of the icons of a square shape with rounded corners" - a statement quoted by Bloomberg Coeur.

According to him, she even got confused: one took from the table on which were laid out a variety of devices, phones Samsung, when in fact wanted to take the iPhone.

"I've always considered myself to those detailed look at the schedule, but they messed up - it cites Bloomberg. - In addition to its own analysis of the devices I have personally gone through this experience. "

According to experts, after examining the application shortcuts on smartphones, it was looking for examples "to show that the design can be different." As an example she cited a device BlackBerry Torch from Research In Motion, on the main screen, which also provides a set of software, but their images are not used squares with smooth edges.

"You can make a design that will not be on something like" - she summed up.

Coeur - the second witness who draws attention to the fact that consumers may confuse the device. Previously, the designer, Peter Bressler, presented to the jury report data according to which customers are Best Buy's return Tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, as the thought that buying iPad.

Samsung has cut Galaxy S III functional requirements from Apple

Judicial opposition Apple and Samsung are reflected in the users mobile companies. Thus, the owners of the flagship Android-device Galaxy S III lost in the latest firmware on the device search function, which is an analogue called Spotlight is present in iOS.

 

According to Android Central, in the description issued yesterday to the holders of the international version of Galaxy S III assembly XXBLG6 size of 27 MB, refers only to increase stability. In fact, after it is installed in phone lost the ability to use Google Search to search for files on the device, contacts, mail, messages and other data. Search is only available on the Internet.

So Samsung has decided to protect its flagship smartphone from claims by Apple. Previously, Cupertino empire managed to ban U.S. sales of Galaxy Nexus, produced by Google, on the basis of, inter alia, infringement of a patent for universal search.

On the iPhone and iPad tablet users through a section of Spotlight, presented in the mobile operating system by Apple in 2009, can look directly into the network and the data on the device. This feature is patented.

Won the court threatens Apple smartphone Galaxy S III

Last week, Apple  haswon on the patent front, achieving pre-ban sales of the smartphone Galaxy Nexus in the United States. Such an order made Circuit Judge Lucy Koh, California. Meanwhile, a preliminary decision in favor of Apple may threaten the Galaxy S III, and other popular models of Android-smartphone.

 

The initiator of the suit is a manufacturer of Cupertino. In February, he filed a lawsuit against Samsung, accusing the rival of violating four patents: 5,946,647 (method of data extraction), 8,086,604 (universal search technology), 8,046,721 (unlock by holding your finger across the screen) and 8,074,172 (completion words when entering text.)

The preliminary decision on the Galaxy Nexus, threatens Android-smartphone sales in the U.S. as a whole, because the techniques described in these patents Apple, apply to all devices on this platform: in particular, the method of removing the device from locking finger and predictive text input.

The reason for the positive decision of the court was under patent number 8,086,604. This patent describes the technology of universal search, which is the basis function in the Siri iPhone 4S and the new iPad. Its essence - search the various sources of data updates, what the user wants to receive. This technology, called S-Voice is implemented in the phone Samsung S III.

The preliminary decision to ban was issued by the judge, who previously took a similar decision regarding the sales in the United States tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 . This decision is Samsung also intends to contest.

The ban on the sale of Galaxy Nexus will enter into force after Apple will make a deposit of $ 95 million these funds will be paid as compensation for the Samsung, if the decision to ban sales will be challenged. According to FOSS Patents, Korean manufacturers have already started preparing documents for the appeal.

Apple may ban the sale of Galaxy S III in the U.S.

Despite statements by Samsung that sales of the new device Galaxy S III in the U.S. will begin, despite the opposition of Apple, The latest news from the floor of the District Court of San Jose is not as optimistic as one would like the Korean company.

 

Last week, Circuit Judge Lucy Koh announced the possibility of entering a temporary ban on imports of Galaxy S III in the United States and asked the corporations to give suggestions on the dates of meetings of the court on this issue. At the end of the week by representatives of Apple and Samsung have provided the judge agreed timetable, under which the court session held on Tuesday 12 June and Thursday. During these meetings, the parties must prove why the sale of Galaxy S III should be prohibited (or allowed) in the U.S. in June this year.

Samsung will have until Tuesday to provide evidence of significant differences in the functions specified in the charges, the Galaxy S III and smartphone Samsung Galaxy Nexus, on which the claim is already in court. If the judge decides that the two phones are no different in functionality and supported technologies, the smartphone Galaxy S III is added to the lawsuit Apple, relating to the violation of patents in the manufacture of Galaxy Nexus, which practically means an immediate ban on the sale of Galaxy S III.

However, Samsung reserved the opportunity to provide the source code on Thursday regarding the technologies mentioned in the lawsuit, and then within 3 days of the warring parties will reconvene to determine what additional actions to be performed in order to clarify the present case. After that, according to the procedure, Apple will have to decide whether to continue to insist on an interim ban on the sale of Galaxy S III or not.

As previously reported in the statement of claim "fruit" giant claimed that Samsung's flagship phone of illegally used the intellectual property of Apple. In particular, according to Cupertino , the Korean manufacturer has violated two patents, one relating to the universal search technology used by the voice assistant Siri, - a reference to the technology S-Voice at the Galaxy S III, and the second involves the automatic detection and identification of specific data on the device, such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses and hyperlinks. Thanks to the second patent in April, Apple managed to prohibit the importation into the United States a number of smartphones HTC.

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Apple has once again - the third in the history of confrontation with HTC - filed with the Commission on International Trade in the U.S. (ITC) claim to ban importation into the territory of the United States, Taiwanese smartphone in connection with patent infringement relating to technology that allows you to use these in the received e-mail addresses and phone numbers in other applications as a reference.

 

To maintain the share of iPhone in the U.S. smartphone market Apple is ready to take any action. And this time the company from Cupertino to prohibit the sale in the U.S. 29 latest models of smartphones HTC.

In the new lawsuit Apple insists that HTC is still infringes copyrights, patent-protected № 5,946,647, in a number of devices, including HTC One X, HTC One S, HTC One V, HTC Inspire 4G, HTC Vivid, HTC Status, HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G, HTC Wildfire, HTC Wildfire S, HTC Hero, HTC Hero S, HTC EVO 4G LTE, HTC EVO 4G, HTC EVO V 4G, HTC EVO Design 4G, HTC EVO 3D, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC DROID Incredible 4G LTE, HTC myTouch 4G, HTC myTouch 4G Slide, HTC Merge, HTC Rezound, HTC Rhyme, HTC ThunderBolt, HTC Flyer, HTC Jetstream, HTC EVO View 4G and HTC DROID Incredible 2.

As proof of their accusations Apple has provided a screenshot confirming the presence of a smartphone HTC features a patent-protected.

 

On the eve of Apple's demand to close the U.S. market for smartphone Samsung Galaxy S III. The petition alleged that the mobile flagship Samsung infringed two "apple" of the patent, one of which deals with the universal search technology that uses Voice Assistant Siri, and the second one - involves the automatic detection and identification of specific data on the device, such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses and hyperlinks.