“Apple Inc. sued Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. claiming the Korean electronics giant copied the look and feel of its popular iPhone smartphones and iPad tablet computers,” Ian Sherr reports for Dow Jones.
“The lawsuit, filed on April 15 in the Northern District of California, alleged that Samsung’s smartphones, such as the ‘Galaxy S 4G,’ ‘Epic 4G,’ ‘Nexus S’ and its ‘Galaxy Tab’ touchscreen tablet, violated Apple’s intellectual property,” Sherr reports. “‘Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smart phone products and computer tablets, Samsung chose to copy Apple’s technology, user interface and innovative style in these infringing products,’ the lawsuit said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: On September 17, 2010, we wrote that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab deserved to be “hit with a very well-deserved Apple Trade Dress Infringement lawsuit (at the very least).”
The only reason apple are suing samsung because there phones are better then apple witch phone is the best in the world samsung galaxy 2 trust me they will not have it there own way see who wins in the end.IPhone killer samsung galaxy 1.Biggest chip maker in the world and provides apple with them and LCD screens.Samsung comes out with a samsung galaxy 3 witch is 3d and faster than galaxy 2 iPhone 5 will have same chip as the ipad 2 witch samsung galaxy 2 beat on speed test.Samsung are the best and iPhone are shitting it go samsung.
Oh,,, the “IBM Simon” it was truly ahead of it’s time. Bought mine in 1994, it was full touch screen. It had calculator calendar notepad games etc,,, Hey Waite a minute, I think IBM copied APPLE….. Ha ha ha ha ha ha cough ha ha ha