Although Monday is Independence Day, the national day of the USA, Apple introduced yesterday to an American court a request in which it stipulates that the sales of 4 Samsung products should be blocked in the USA. Apparently Apple checked the devices that are available for purchase on the American market and found that Samsung violated several patents when it designed and assembled the terminals. Apple wants the Samsung Galaxy S 4G, Droid Charge, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Infuse 4G to stop being sold on the American market until the process between the 2 big companies is finished.
Apple claims that in the development of these products, 4 patents were infringed, 3 related to the design of the devices and the fourth related to the way scrolling is done in applications and the way documents are managed in terminals. I for one do not think that a court would block the sales of one of the most popular companies on the American market, but in the USA many things happen that would never happen in Romania, so anything is possible.
Samsung terminals contain certain design elements of Apple terminals and not a few times I had the impression that I was seeing an iPhone 3G/3GS with a front camera when in fact it was a Samsung. Maybe the process will finally force those from Samsung to pay certain sums of money to Apple, it would normally be like that considering the way Samsung knows how to "enter the competition" with Apple (as they say).
