Mumbai: Apple has now asked the US court to order Samsung Electronics to stop copying its identical handset features. The company is also following up on the handset review damages caused due to similar features. It had also requested the court for $2.2 billion in damages for the infringement of five of its patents.
According to Apple, three infringing features that Samsung needs to remove are : 'Slide-to-unlock' on phone home screens for unlocking a device, auto-correct for prompts on the spelling of words, and the so-called 'quick links' feature for scanning text to identify certain types of structures such as phone numbers, dates and email addresses.
MacWorld also reported, ‘In a filing on Saturday, Apple said it was not asking the court to bar entire product lines from the marketplace, but for an injunction that proposes to stop Samsung from further use of the specific features that the jury found to infringe Apple's three patents, and those features not more than ‘colorably different’. Samsung cannot complain that Apple's narrowly-tailored injunction will deprive the public of a single Samsung product, as per official report.
The company has also asked for a new trial on infringement of the two patents that the jury found Samsung's products had not infringed and a new trial on damages for all five of Apple's asserted patents. Samsung did not comment on Apple's second motion.
A report in a South Korean newspaper had suggested that Samsung and Apple had recently agreed to begin talks to settle patent disputes out of court, citing people directly involved with the matter. In the court, though, the companies recently blamed each other for the failure of court-initiated negotiations to settle their dispute.
