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a U.S. import ban on some Samsung models to the U.S. Trade Commission ITC has achieved. It could, however, remain a largely symbolic decision, which hardly affects the Samsung business.
The ITC firmly placed on Friday after months of investigation that Samsung had infringed two Apple patents. In the one it comes to touch-screen technology and the other is the connection of earphones. However, the South Korean company said already to have the two Apple patents now bypassed in its smartphones and tablets. Agree with this view, the U.S. authorities, the ban would largely evaporate. Samsung commented on the ban still disappointed. However, the experiment was rejected Apple’s “excessive use design patents to achieve rounded corners on rectangles and a monopoly” his, it said in a statement. “The proper goal of the smartphone industry is not the global debate in the courts, but a fair competition in the market.” In addition, the South Koreans still file an appeal – and a veto by U.S. President Barack Obama . hoping The White House had a method by Samsung against Apple an ITC import ban on some older models of iPhone and iPad a veto blocked until last weekend [1] . However, Samsung was placed at the ITC in contrast to Apple on patents that belong to the basis of technical standards. The U.S. government, for example, the EU Commission are prohibitions against sale based on such standard patents. since the spring of 2011 escalating patent conflict [2] between the two leading smartphone manufacturers will be held in about a dozen countries. <- AUTHOR MARKER DATA BEGIN -> (dpa ) / <- RSPEAK_STOP -> ( map [3] )<- RSPEAK_START -> <- AUTHOR DATA MARKER END ->
