The de facto response from Samsung to Apple's demand has not been long in coming. Yesterday, the Korean multinational filed a complaint in South Korea, Japan and Germany against the Cupertino giant. The basis that Samsung shows for the case indicates the infringement of up to ten Korean patents that Apple would have infringed, including systems used for wireless connectivity or methods to make the autonomy of the devices more efficient.
With this action, Samsung launches what it announced a few days ago, when Apple's complaint about the Asian company was made public, they argued that the devices of the Korean company were a plagiarism of those of the apple in terms of design, packaging and operation (extending the charge of copycat even to the icon system). Already then, from the South Korean multinational, they released a statement in which they anticipated that they would respond "actively to this legal action against us through the appropriate legal measures to protect our intellectual property."
There is no doubt that the cross complaint is not without interest: Apple and Samsung are currently two of the references in the mobile phone market and the recently launched tablet sector. That is why a lawsuit at a key moment like this, with Samsung about to launch its new line of high-end terminals, is not without meaning within the confrontation of both manufacturers.
But there is still more, and it is the case that Apple is one of the most important customers of Samsung, which supplies components and vital technology for the development of the products of the Cupertino company. Given this, it is difficult not to imagine that behind Apple's lawsuit (presented a year after Samsung launched the Samsung Galaxy S, the terminal that concentrates much of the arguments of the complaint) there is something more than a correction of damages for patent infringement.
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