“Yesterday (Thursday, June 16, 2011), Apple amended and expanded its complaint against Samsung, asserting more patents and other intellectual property rights than before against an extended list of allegedly infringing products,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.
“It’s certainly no coincidence that Apple did so on the eve of today’s court hearing related to Samsung’s requests for samples of the (not even announced) iPhone 5 and iPad 3,”Mueller reports. “Also, today is the deadline set by the court for Samsung to provide to Apple’s outside counsel samples of the Galaxy S2, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Infuse 4G, and 4G LTE (aka “Droid Charge”) products, packaging, and package inserts. After receiving and evaluating that material, Apple will soon decide on whether to request a preliminary injunction — a move that I consider reasonably probable.”
Mueller reports, “Many of [Apple’s amendments and] changes are designed to portray Samsung’s alleged infringement as an incredibly outrageous act of copying. The original complaint already accused Samsung of ‘slavishly copying’ Apple’s designs. The amended one stresses that Samsung “has been even bolder” than other competitors emulating Apple’s products and has created ‘products that blatantly imitate the appearance of Apple’s products to capitalize on Apple’s success.'”
Much more in the full article here.