{"id":22601,"date":"2012-09-20T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T11:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=22601"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:33:39","slug":"samsung-adds-iphone-5-to-patent-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/22601\/samsung-adds-iphone-5-to-patent-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung adds iPhone 5 to patent lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Samsung Electronics Co\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1813-Samsung\">Samsung Electronics Co<\/a> said on Thursday it plans to add <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1648-Apple\">Apple<\/a>&#8216;s iPhone 5, which goes on sale this week, to its existing patent lawsuits against the U.S. smartphone rival.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh legal step by the South Korean firm comes as Apple booked orders for over two million iPhone 5 models in the first 24 hours and the model hits store shelves on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samsung anticipates that it will file, in the near future, a motion to amend its infringement contentions to add the iPhone 5 as an accused product,&#8221; it said in a U.S. court filing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/22554\/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-remains-banned\/\"><strong>Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 remains banned<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/22225\/apple-vs-samsung-redux-itc-gives-preliminary-ruling\/\"><strong>Apple vs Samsung redux &#8211; ITC gives preliminary ruling<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/21226\/apple-targets-more-samsung-bans\/\"><strong>Apple targets more Samsung bans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/21200\/samsung-apple-trying-to-limit-consumer-choice\/\"><strong>Samsung: Apple trying to limit consumer choice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/20806\/apple-seeking-8-samsung-bans\/\"><strong>Apple seeking 8 Samsung bans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics Co said on Thursday it plans to add Apple&#8217;s iPhone 5, which goes on sale this week, to its existing patent lawsuits against the U.S. smartphone rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,2845,365,52],"class_list":["post-22601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-iphone-5","tag-patents","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22604,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22601\/revisions\/22604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}