Check out as how Apple- Samsung patent dispute unveiled

Smartphones available in the market these days possess features that are similar. Most of them have responsive touch screens that help users to use the phone with ease. Easy unlocking of phone with the quick movement of the finger, shortcuts to reach the address book or dialing keypads are all similar in these phones.

Such similarities are often the reason for the many patent disputes that occur between many Smartphone companies. Similar disputes have come up even between the Smartphone giants like Apple Inc. and Samsung electronics.

Recently, a legal fight had come up, that had been winded up last Friday. The jury found that certain features of Apple Smartphone have been copied by Samsung. It was also discovered that Apple had illegally been using the patents of Samsung for the creation of its Smartphone beauties iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. Therefore a California jury awarded Apple $119 million and Samsung $158,400 million.

Apple claimed the verdict a ‘victory”.

“Samsung willfully stole our ideas and copied our products,” Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said adding, “We are fighting to defend the hard work that goes into beloved products like the iPhone, which our employees devote their lives to designing and delivering for our customers.”

As per Patent 5, 845, 647, the technology that is described is made use of to display the options of a popup menu. For example, when a phone number is highlighted in a Smartphone with touchscreen, there is a prompting of various options by the software. As per the jury, Apple was able to prove that Samsung had made use of this patent over several of their mobile devices. This includes Galaxy S3, Galaxy Nexus and Stratosphere.

Patent 6, 847, 959 describes about the universal interface for the purpose of retrieving information in a computer system. This actually is related to the function of search engine. This feature, the mobile device is able to access information even from a different location. As per the jury, Apple did not succeed in proving that Samsung had infringed this patent.

According to patent 7, 761, 414, Apple had the patent for Asynchronous synchronization of data among devices. This actually is a method of synchronizing data through mobile devices and computers. Through this technology, you can synchronize the address books from the phone to an online storage. According to the jury, Apple’s patent was not infringed by Samsung.

The unlocking of mobile devices with the help of gestures on the unlock image is contained in patent 8, 046, 721. According to this patent, electronic device is controlled with the help of touch sensitive display. As per Apple, Samsung infringed this feature in their mobile devices like Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G tough as well as Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. But this was rejected by the panel.

The patent of Remote video transmission system is contained in patent 5, 579, 239. According to this patent of Samsung, the technology of compressing, digitalizing and transmitting audio and video signals and then during the broadcast process, reversing it. According to the verdict Apple did not infringe the patent of Samsung.

 The patent for recording and reproducing image and speech digitally through apparatus is contained in patent 6, 226, 449. According to this patent of Samsung, this company has the patent for dual digital camera. These days, every Smartphone has this one as the main feature. According to the patent, the Smartphone user is able to change the camera’s direction. According to the jury, Apple has infringed on this patent of Samsung in various devices like iPhone as well as iPod Touch.

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