Apple is yet again pursuing patent infringement claims against Samsung (and Samsung is counter-suing Apple too). The pair's newest patent battle is happening in the US District Court of Northern California and it's a similar lawsuit to the infringement case heard last year that resulted in a $1.05 billion verdict in favor of Apple. However, this time around Apple and Samsung are pursuing claims against the latest generation of products.
Last week, Apple added a footnote to a filing, saying it hoped to include Samsung's Galaxy S4 in its infringement suit. Now, the company has filed a motion to include not only the S4 but also a wide array of Google services. According to Apple lawyers, the Google "Quick Search Box," and the later Google Now function, infringes two Apple patents.
The Cupertino company went on to say that Samsung's latest iterations of Google's operating system infringe upon two patents—numbers 8,086,604 and 6,847,959—in ways that satisfied a Federal Circuit's narrowed definitions of Apple's claims. Both the '604 and '959 patents deal with selectively presenting information from a search to suit the user's most relevant needs.
The company is also investigating Google Play Books, Google Play Music, Google Play Movies and TV, and the Google Play Store and Android Market. Apple lawyers complain that "Google did not fully produce the source code for these apps until May 13, 2013."
And Apple concluded, unsurprisingly, that the Galaxy S4 infringes the heck out of its patents.
“Apple immediately began its analysis on the AT&T version [of the Galaxy S4],” Apple attorney Mark Lyon wrote in today's motion, “including Samsung’s customizations of the Android Jelly Bean platform, and confirmed, as with the other accused products, that the infringement analysis is the same on other carriers. As a result of this analysis, Apple determined that the Galaxy S4 product practices many of the same claims already asserted by Apple, and that the Galaxy S4 practices those claims in the same way as the already-accused Samsung devices.”
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