Today, the lawyers of the Apple and Samsung companies today gave up part of the claims they had in a lawsuit in order to send the action and reach a judge in the summer of this year. Every company he gave up to approximately half of the claims he had in the respective process, but even so it is not known if everything will go as the lawyers wanted. Apple claims that Samsung would not have become the biggest smartphone seller if it had not copied the iPhone and claims that the damages caused by the Korean company amount to several billion dollars.
While the parties have been preparing the case for trial Samsung has vaulted into first place in worldwide sales of smartphones, with massive sales of its copycat products. Samsung's infringement of Apple's intellectual property has already resulted in damages that reach billions of dollars. […] It is critical for Apple to start trial on July 30, to put an end to Samsung's continuing infringement.
Samsung, on the other hand, says that Apple is not able to compete on the market and that so far it has not presented any clear evidence that iDevices have been copied in any way. I suppose that US lawyers have a short memory and have forgotten that Apple managed to block the sale of some Samsung terminals in Germany and Australia due to patent infringement. Although the lawyers of the two companies continue the open trials in the courts around the world, Tim Cook and the CEO of Samsung will meet to reach an agreement and stop these disputes, but it remains to be seen if they will succeed.
Apple has only been able to muster utility patents covering extremely minor user interface features, and design patents and trade dresses that offer far narrower protection than Apple urges. There's a lot of diplomacy and politics involved here. But even between two companies from the same country, it would be virtually impossible to get a court to determine, ahead of summary judgment and a trial, that one party has a fundamentally better case, no matter how strong the indications may be.
