{"id":7420,"date":"2012-03-07T09:52:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:26:35","slug":"samsung-files-new-lawsuit-against-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/7420\/samsung-files-new-lawsuit-against-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung files new lawsuit against Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1813-Samsung\">Samsung<\/a> Electronics Co said on Wednesday it has filed another lawsuit against <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> Inc in South Korea, claiming the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 infringed on three of its patents.<\/p>\n<p>The move escalates the tension between the firms as they vie for dominance of the mobile device market, after a series of legal clashes in Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung said the fresh suit, filed on Tuesday to a Seoul court, covers three utility patents and involves methods of displaying data, the user interface, and short text messages.<\/p>\n<p>The companies have extended their fight to more than 30 cases in 10 countries since Apple fired its first salvo in April, claiming Samsung &#8220;slavishly&#8221; copied its iPhone and iPad models.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung counter-sued, saying Apple infringed on its patents and failed to pay royalties.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is also involved in patent battles in separate disputes with other smartphone makers using <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>&#8216;s free <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a> platform, the fastest growing mobile operating system, which is used by Samsung, <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211039-Motorola\" target=\"_blank\">Motorola<\/a> Mobility Holdings and <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340335-HTC-Corp\" target=\"_blank\">HTC<\/a> Corp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it has filed another lawsuit against Apple Inc in South Korea, claiming the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 infringed on three of its patents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,245,1126,52],"class_list":["post-7420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-htc","tag-motorola-mobility","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420","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=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26531,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions\/26531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}