Samsung Galaxy S3 is about to hit the U.S. market this month, and Android’s biggest rival Apple is trying to ban its U.S. sales.
The much-anticipated flagship from Samsung will be available in all major U.S. wireless carriers as early as June 21, posing perhaps the biggest threat that Apple iPhone has seen in the past. But with the new move from the iPhone-maker, Android-equipped Galaxy S3 may face some trouble.
Apple has brought a motion “to supplement the record regarding Samsung’s Galaxy S III product”. Prior to this event, Apple had raised a motion against Galaxy Nexus. Apple, who purchased a Galaxy S III device in United Kingdom where the device was launched earlier on May 29, said the Samsung’s smart phone “clearly infringes at least two of the Apple patents at issue in the preliminary injunction motion for the exact same reasons as the Galaxy Nexus”.
Watch the entire motion here
12-06-05 Apple Motion on Galaxy S III
The two alleged patents, according to Apple, are Patent No. 8,086,604 “United Search” and Patent No. 5,946,647 “Links for Structures”. The two are also known as “Siri” and “Data Tapping”, respectively.
Apple said “[a]ccording to press reports, Samsung has already sold over nine million preorders of the Galaxy S III” and that the “Galaxy S III will also irreparably harm Apple for the same reasons as the Galaxy Nexux, but on a much greater scale”.
Just recently, Apple has also requested the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban 29 devices from HTC, including the One X, EVO 4G LTE, and Flyer tablet, over the same data tapping technology. Although HTC said they were “in compliance with the ITC’s ruling”, Apple thinks otherwise.
At this point when a lot of Galaxy S3 has been preordered, we are not sure what exactly would happen.
FOSS Patent reported that Samsung replied to Apple saying that “it’s too late to supplement the record for the motion that targeted the Nexus back in February and suggesting that a new preliminary injunction motion is needed.”
"If Apple wishes to seek an injunction against the Galaxy S III, the Court should require Apple to file a new motion and allow the parties to develop a full factual record on all four factors. Accordingly, the Court should reject Apple’s motion to amend its current notice of motion for a preliminary injunction."
Is it possible to see the awaited Samsung Galaxy S3 this June 21? Or is Apple going to succeed in delaying, or perhaps even banning, the new threat to iPhone?
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