As expected, Samsung has filed a lawsuit against Apple’s latest iPhone — the iPhone 5 — alleging the smartphone infringes patents it holds. Commenting on the action in a statement given to Reuters, Samsung said: “We have little choice but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations and intellectual property rights.â€
We’ve contacted Samsung for further comment and details of the disputed patents and will update if we hear back. At the time of writing Apple had also not responded to a request for comment.
According to Florian Mueller of the FOSS patents blog, the lawsuit was filed about an hour before the Northern District Court of Californian’s Judge Koh’s dissolved a preliminary injunction banning sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the U.S. — an overhang from another big bout of patent litigation between the two companies in which Apple won damages of more than $1 billion.
