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Samsung now trying to get the iPhone 4S banned in Australia, France, Japan, and Italy

October 17, 2011 by Stefan Constantinescu - Leave a Comment

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Apple’s newest hotness, the iPhone 4S (check out our review!), has become Samsung’s latest target in the never ending spat between the two consumer electronics giants. Last week we reported that Samsung was seeking to prevent the iPhone 4S from being sold in France and Italy. This week they’ve added Australia and Japan to that list. Whether or not they’ll be successful in the courts remains to be seen, these cases typically involve lawyers and judges who can’t tell their ass from their elbow. So why is Samsung so hostile? If memory serves us right, it was Apple who first sued Samsung over infringing some trademarks and/or patents, Samsung of course countersued, and then Apple brought out the big guns and got the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned from several large European markets and the entire country of Australia. Now Samsung is getting back at Apple, saying that they’ve failed to license patents relating to WCDMA, better known as 3G. The goal is to obviously kick the iPhone 4S in the knees so that it doesn’t sprint to success, but rather limps.

Now to make things even more complicated, Samsung Chief Operating Officer and President Lee Jae-yong was recently invited to attent a priviate invitation only tribute to Steve Jobs that will be hosted by Apple. He told The Wall Street Journal that:

“I will have a chance to meet Cook, but I’m not going there for business purposes. I’m going to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, and I don’t know what I will talk about with Cook. Apple is one of Samsung’s most important clients, and we have developed a solid partnership. But that’s a separate matter from the legal disputes between the two companies in areas where they compete.”

Will this incessant bullshit ever end? We certainly hope so, since the real court battle that needs to take place is between Apple and Google, not the companies who take Google’s software and then slap it on devices.

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