Modern customers always have to choose Apple or Samsung phone, LG or HP devices etc. There are a lot of popular brands that produce useful gadgets and consumers have hard times deciding on the model and company they would like to get [if you have iOS 8.4.1 iPhone locked to Verizon you can SIM unlock it]. It’s not a secret that there are iPhone fans, Samsung Galaxy fans and other groups of customers who like particular brand and don’t like its rivals. The similar situation happens between the famous companies that often file lawsuits against each other.
The news about Samsung vs Apple lawsuit is not surprising any more. The two smartphone creators have several cases in U.S. courts. Apple believes that its iPhone design is being copied by other companies. Other companies are sure that iPhone design patent is invalid and cannot be the design owned by Apple only because the forms of the handsets are pretty much alike.
Samsung has plans to appeal in the American Supreme Court since U.S. Appeals court has rejected the company’s appeal for re-examination of the case. The hearing might take place sometime by November.
Samsung was told to pay Apple millions of dollars because of the patent violations. At the same time, according to the USPTO, the design patent under the name D’677 for the Apple handset iPhone is invalid.
This patent might change the case and Samsung hopes to prove that it doesn’t violate the ‘fruit’ company’s patent technologies when it comes to innovations and high-tech industry. Samsung has hopes to take up the matter with the U.S. Supreme Court and require re-examination once again. The company is being supported by other firms such as Google, Dell and Facebook.
It’s not clear if the Court agrees to take up the case with iPhone design patent or not. It has time to decide till June 2016.