Samsung Electronics Co said on Friday a German court ruled against it in a patent lawsuit versus Apple over mobile technologies, part of a global legal battle the technology giants are waging.<\/p>\n
The firm has yet to decide whether to appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n
Apple first sued Samsung in April, claiming that the South Korean firm infringed on its design rights and that Samsung’s products “slavishly” copied Apple’s iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n
Samsung counter-sued, and the string of legal cases now stretches from Australia to France to the United States.<\/p>\n
Samsung said Friday’s ruling covers one patent and the German court has yet to decide on the other two mobile technologies that it claims Apple infringed.<\/p>\n
“We are disappointed that the court did not share our views regarding the infringement by Apple of this specific patent in Germany,” said Nam Ki-yung, a spokesman for Samsung.<\/p>\n
“It should be noted that today’s ruling relates to only one of several patents asserted by Samsung in the Mannheim court.”<\/p>\n
In early December, Samsung won a round against Apple when an Australian court lifted a ban on the sale of its Galaxy tablet computer in time for the busy Christmas shopping season.<\/p>\n
That triumph was tempered by a setback the previous day in Paris where another court rejected its bid to block sales of Apple’s iPhone 4S in France.<\/p>\n
Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in legal cases in 10 countries since April, as they jostle for the top spot in the booming smartphone and tablet markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Samsung Electronics Co said on Friday a German court ruled against it in a patent lawsuit versus Apple over mobile technologies, part of a global legal battle the technology giants are waging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,487,897,52],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-court","tag-ruling","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","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=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}