Things get serious. The particular Game of Thrones that Apple and Samsung (and Apple and Google, and Apple and HTC, and Apple and Nokia…) could acquire more dire tints for those who wait for the iPhone 5 in the Old Continent. In 9to5mac we have read that the Korean firm is planning to take legal action against Apple, with the aim of blocking the launch of the next model of the high-end phone of the Californian company.
The information would come from Reuters, who allegedly contacted a very close source to Samsung in the light of the statements made by a senior manager of the company that, while maintaining their identity in anonymity, confirmed to The Korean Times that since the company was mulling very seriously the idea of playing the same trick in South Korea that Apple played in Germany (where devices from the Galaxy range, such as the Samsung Galaxy S2, or the Samsung Galaxy Tab, cannot be marketed).
Said source consulted by Reuters would have repeated the firm's plan to block sales of the iPhone 5 in Korea. But the threat would go further, expanding the demand to all of Europe, so that the launch would be frozen until the patent dispute that Samsung is pointing to against Apple is clarified.
Recall that Samsung would support the basis of its claim to Apple in Korea (and by extension, in Europe, as we have just learned) in relation to the unauthorized use by the Californian firm of wireless connection systems owned by the Korean seal, and that the apple company would be using without authorization.
Without being official Samsung's move in South Korea or Europe, the maneuver would also seek to counterbalance the actions that Apple wants to undertake in Australia, where they want to continue the luck started in Germany.
Such is the case, that in the Germanic region the terminals subject to the suspicions referred to by Apple in its lawsuit were withdrawn from the market. They even torpedoed the presence of the new Samsung devices presented at IFA 2011 that was held at the beginning of this month.
