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Samsung Electronics filed its own U.S. lawsuit versus Apple, accusing the iPad maker of infringing ten patents in an escalation of the dispute above tablet and cellular technologies.

The newest legal move arrives after Apple sued Samsung before this month, claiming the Samsung's Galaxy line of cellular phones and tablets "slavishly" copies the iPhone and iPad.

Apple and Samsung are portion of a wider net of litigation amid telephone makers and software program firms over who owns the patents used in smartphones and tablets, as rivals aggressively rush right into a market by which Apple jumpstarted with iPhone and iPad.

Samsung is amongst the fastest expanding smartphone makers and has emerged as Apple's strongest competitor while in the booming tablet marketplace with types in three measurements, however it stays a distant second inside the space.

Samsung's Galaxy merchandise use Google's Android operating program, which directly competes with Apple's cellular software.

Apple was Samsung's second-biggest buyer final 12 months, mostly for semiconductors. The iPhone maker's statements towards Samsung concentrate on Galaxy's layout features, for example the glimpse of its display screen icons.

The lawsuit filed by Samsung on Wednesday inside a California federal court follows litigation initiated versus Apple in South Korea, Japan and Germany last week.

Apple copied many of Samsung's innovations, according to Samsung's U.S. lawsuit. As an example, 1 from the patents Samsung accuses Apple of violating involves the capacity for mobile phones to display time, the lawsuit says.

"As end users travel across time zones, the capacity of a cellular device to update for the neighborhood time is important for tracking appointments and conferences," the lawsuit said.
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Posted by Prashant Gandhi on 2 May, 2011 4:44:34 PM IST #