Apple: arrows directed on Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Apple: arrows directed on Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Apple claims that the Galaxy Nexus phone from Samsung and Google the slide-to-unlock’ function of the copy operation.
Fosspatents reports that the lawsuit Friday in Germany a few hours after a ruling in a case between Samsung and Apple added. According to the American company violates the Galaxy Nexus uses a model that has obtained in Germany in 2006. It is about unlocking a touchscreen device by sliding across the screen.
The Galaxy Nexus, a small circle on the screen outside a larger circle on the larger screen to be dragged to unlock the device.
A utility model is different because it is often a patent is granted without substantive examination and the technical requirements that are sometimes less stringent than the requirements that patents be made. The model is therefore only valid for 10 years.
Although the charges against Samsung in nature, the slide-unlock feature on the Nexus is a function of Android, not the South Korean company. That would mean that any future device with Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, infringe the utility model.
Samsung will get to defend a different matter from the Netherlands. In August a court here that certain patented ‘slide to unlock “in our country is not valid because it is already present at the Neonode N1m, a parent device, and therefore was not inventive.
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The court will on March 16 in Germany give a preliminary ruling in this case. It is unclear until then what the consequences will be for both Samsung and Google. Galaxy Nexus