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Bloomberg: Samsung drops US lawsuit against Apple

by Mel Martin Jul 2nd 2011 at 1:20PM

It was done quietly Thursday, but the news is just getting out today. Bloomberg News says Samsung has dropped the U.S. lawsuit claiming Apple had copied many Samsung innovations in the interest of "streamlining" the legal hornet's nest between the two companies.

The Samsung lawsuit was brought in April as a response to an Apple lawsuit, still pending, that claims Samsung's mobile phones and tablets have copied Apple designs. It appears Samsung is doing this to consolidate its legal pleadings, as the US suit was done to quickly establish Samsung's alleged case against Apple. You can read some detailed analysis of this case from the Foss Patents blog.

The legal paperwork continue to mount. Last Tuesday, Samsung asked the International Trade Commission to block several Apple devices for sale due to patent infringements.



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Macs4All

The obviously realized that the Discovery that Apple was requesting would reveal for all to see that Apple's original claims that Samsung was ripping off their IP (which was, I'm sure, revealed to them on the express condition that they would NOT reveal or USE it). Once their counsel figured out that was the case, there was no case...

July 03 2011 at 11:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Wayne Luke

Hmm.. I can imagine this meeting.

Samsung Components - We're going to lose our Apple supply contracts. Not only for mobile components but for other things including LCD screens for monitors. We made 7.8 billion off these components last year.

Samsung Mobile - yeah, we sued them and are trying to get their products banned from the marketplace.

Samsung Board - umm.. You need to make this go away and make nice with our largest customer. Refrigerators and Televisions are nice but they don't really pay the bills

July 02 2011 at 7:16 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
wmpoweruser

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/samsungs-defense-against-apples.html#consolidation

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by zpower
There continue to be new articles about Samsung dropping claims against Apple. They only CONVERTED them, ADDED patents:

July 02 2011 at 3:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john a.

Perhaps Apple buying the LTE patents outright has put additional leverage on Samsung.

July 02 2011 at 3:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bradleyjp

Guess that injunction Apple submitted scared them or they realized that they have no case because they were copying Apple.

July 02 2011 at 1:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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