Apple has now followed Samsung’s lead and added more products to their pending lawsuit. Apple has added six Samsung products including the Smasung Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III mini.
According to FossPatent:
[quote] Both Apple and Samsung keep exercising their rights under the Northern District of California’s permissive rules governing the timing of infringement contentions. After Samsung added the iPhone 5 and Apple brought claims against the Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy S III, as well as the Galaxy Nexus with the Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) update, Samsung filed infringement contentions against the iPad 4 and iPad mini as well as the latest iPod touch. At the time I already said that in terms of the number of products that a party can add to the lawsuit at an advanced stage, there is actually even more of an opportunity for Apple, given that Samsung has a far wider product range.[/quote]
The six Samsung products listed by FossPatent are:
- Samsung Galaxy S III running the new Android Jelly Bean operating system
- Samsung Galaxy Note II – released on October 24
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Wifi, recently update to Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), which is why Apple wanted to update its charts as well
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
- the Samsung Rugby Pro – released on October 21
- Samsung Galaxy S III mini recently offered for sale in the United States, released in the UK on November 8.
Mueller reported that, “Apple’s motion highlights that all of these products (or product upgrades) were released after the fifth-generation iPod touch Samsung would like to include in this lawsuit, a fact that should make it difficult for the court to allow Samsung the addition of the fifth-generation iPod touch (apparently already released in early October) while denying Apple’s latest proposed additions as untimely.”
In other news…
FossPatent also has an update on the content of Apple’s 10-years patent deal with HTC.
According to the report:
[quote] Exhibit F-3 to the Apple-HTC settlement agreement contains the prepared, agreed-upon forms of dismissal. All of the dismissals of patents that truly belong to the parties are without prejudice, as I had reported. But HTC doesn’t truly own Google’s loan patents, and the parties agreed upon a dimissal with prejudice with respect to at least some of those. Google has a “buyback” right under its agreement with HTC, but Google is not a party to the Apple-HTC agreement.[/quote]
Source: FossPatent
