Samsung is not taking things lying down, despite the
damning indictment by a San Jose federal court that last week found it guilty
of violating Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s patents.
The Korean electronics major has vowed to continue
its litigations against Apple, while it now plans to partner with Microsoft to
reduce its dependency on Google’s Android operating system.
A report by the Korean Times said that the company,
which is the world’s largest smartphone seller, plans to appeal the jury’s
verdict and also to pursue fresh litigations against the Cupertino company on
patent violations relating to 4G LTE networks.
The paper stated that "Samsung confirmed that
it will immediately sue Apple if the latter releases products using advanced
long-term evolution (LTE) mobile technology," although Apple already has
released New iPad models with 4G LTE connectivity, having introduced them
nearly six months ago.
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Samsung controls less than an eighth of the patents
related to LTE, with 43 percent of the patents share owned by Nokia, Qualcomm
and Ericsson.
Samsung, in fact, is closely following Google in its
approach that just a few standard essential patents can be used to successfully
monopolize the entire market. Incidentally both companies are under
investigation by authorities in the United States and the European Union for
allegedly abusing patent law with regard to FRAND-committed patents.
The federal jury which fond Samsung guilty of violating
patents also dismissed its claims that Apple had violated the Korean company’s
patents with regard to wireless technologies. Apple argued that it does not
infringe upon the patents, but also that Samsung misled standards bodies by
hiding patents covering the technology it submitted for inclusion in those
standards.
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