Samsung Electronics has fired its major salvo in the
high-stakes patent battle with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), accusing the latter of
infringing on its (Samsung's) patents.
The Korean electronics giant, which started its
defence in the trial this week, called Harvard University professor, Woodward
Yang to the witness stand on Tuesday.
The professor of electrical engineering testified that
Apple's iPhone, iPod and iPad infringed on the Korean handset maker's patents.
Incidentally Apple is suing Samsung for violating its design copyrights and
imitating its mobile devices while designing its Galaxy range of phones.
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Yang said that Apple’s iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPod
Touch fourth generation, and the iPad2 had infringed on features on Samsung’s
phone related to scrolling through images, and sending messages with
photographs. He also testified that Apple's products had infringed on the
Korean company’s photo indexing patent and that for playing MP3 music files.
This is the third week of the high-profile trial
between the two companies, which are fighting at least a dozen court battles
across four continents, accusing each other of patent violations, monopolistic
practices as they try to gain dominance in the $200-plus billion smartphone
market.
In the cross examination of Yang that followed, Apple
lawyer William Lee brought out that photo scrolling feature had not been used
by Samsung on its phones in the last three years.
On Monday, the Korean company had called in two
computer scientists to dispute the Cupertino-based company's claim about the
originality of its patents.
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It also discredited the testimony of an ex-graphics
designer of Apple who had claimed that she had often mistaken Samsung's phones
for Apple devices due to the similarity in their icons.
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