The South Korean multinational Samsung has reported that the initiation of the necessary actions to block the launch of the iPhone 4S in France and Italy. This has been stated in a statement through its website Samsung Tomorrow, according to Europa Press.
Samsung is one of Apple's main rivals in the smart phone market, a commercial dispute that has moved to the courts, where both companies have various lawsuits focused on the unauthorized use of patents registered by the adversary.
Thus, the Asian company would be requested by the courts in Paris and Milan the beginning of precautionary measures against the disposal of the new iPhone 4S in two countries, a move that promises to be replicated in other regions of the continent.
Samsung refers to the violation, by Apple, of some communication systems that the iPhone 4S would use. Specifically, it refers to WCDMA networks (a type of 4G standard), of which the new apple smartphone would use based on patents deliberately infringed by the Cupertino company. For this reason, the exclusion of the iPhone 4S from countries where these patents are violated is required by law.
These requests are the beginning of a cascade of measures that Samsung says it will undertake in other countries where it believes that its intellectual property is being violated. Thus, the Korean company warns that it intends to continue on this path at all costs, with a view to protecting the patents that, it maintains, "Apple has flagrantly violated. "
This chapter in the feud between Apple and Samsung adds to the many previous ones that make up the soap opera that have been in the works for months across the globe. We have already had dozens of cross complaints, filed in courts in the United States, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Japan or Sweden, among many other countries.
The beginning of the confrontation dates from a complaint by Apple, who filed a complaint about Samsung, alluding to the similar suspect that, according to the Cupertino multinational, kept the mobile phones and tablets of the latest Galaxy range with iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
They even vetoed the distribution of the Samsung Galaxy S2 and Samsung Galaxy Tab at IFA 2011, using a series of tests that, as it was found, had come to be manipulated to support the accusation of plagiarism in the designs.
