A new trial between Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), si Samsung is going to start during the next period, the American company asking for compensation of 2 billion dollars for the infringement of some invention patents by Samsung. 5 invention patents are mentioned by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), as being violated by the Koreans, who claim instead that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), infringes 2 own patents. Although everything seems to be focused on Apple and Samsung, in reality the problem is Android-, because the patents discussed by Apple cover technologies implemented in this operating system.
Some features in Samsung devices that Apple objects to are part of Google's Android operating system, by far the most popular mobile operating system worldwide, running on more than a billion devices made by many manufacturers. That means that if Apple wins, Google could have to make changes to critical Android features, and Samsung and other Android phone makers might have to modify the software on their phones.
Today, the jury selection process will begin, which will finally decide who owes and what amounts of money, but the whole process could have an extremely important meaning. Google monitors everything from the "shadows" and if Apple wins, then Android will be seriously modified in order for Google to avoid lawsuits against it. US intellectual property experts estimate that the process should last approximately one month, during which we will learn new information about the iDevices development procedure, but not only that.
