Samsung Galaxy S III it was officially launched last week in several countries around the world, but it will arrive in the USA only during this day. Although those from Samsung are in a hurry to bring the terminal to American stores, while those from Apple sent their lawyers to an American court in an attempt to block the sale of this terminal in the USA claiming that it infringes a patent for Siri and one for "data tapping". We talked about "data tapping" yesterday when I said that Apple is using this patent to try to ban the sale of 29 HTC smartphones in the US, and in the case of Siri, Apple is protecting a technology that allows for unified searches in the operating system.
Apple formally asks the court for permission to add the S III as another product targeted by Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus, a smartphone Samsung co-developed with Google. There's an important overlap: the "data tapping" patent that Apple is seeking to enforce against HTC's current generation of products is one of two patents Apple is using against the S III. Apple's motion notes that “[a]ccording to press reports, Samsung has already sold over nine million preorders of the Galaxy S III; indeed, the Galaxy S III has been reported to be the most extensively preordered piece of consumer electronics in history." ...Apple "will limit its current request for preliminary relief against the Galaxy S III to the '604 [unified search, ie, Siri] and '647 [data tapping] patents, because it is clear that infringement can be shown with respect to these patents based on the current record.
The Samsung Galaxy S III would go on sale in the US on June 7, 2 weeks before a court will verify Apple's request to include the Samsung Galaxy S III in an existing lawsuit, and the company from Cupertino - asked Samsung not to launch the device until that date. Of course, Samsung refused to do this and if that request from Apple is approved and the lawsuit is won, then Samsung could pay damages for the launch in the US.
It was expected that Apple would attack Samsung for the S-Voice system, although the system is clearly inferior to the one available in the iPhone 4S, but I don't know if based on those patents they could block the sales of this device.
