South Korea’s Samsung – slapped a few weeks ago with a huge $1.5 billion jury verdict in California after losing a patent battle to Apple – claims the iPhone 5 infringes two standard patents and six feature patents, covering actions such as synchronising photos, music, and video files across several devices, and a method to capture and send video over the Internet, reports Law.com’s Corporate Council magazine.

Aggressive action

According to the report, Samsung has added its latest claims to a separate patent infringement law suit filed in April, which accuses Silicon Valley-based Apple of several other patent violations. That case is expected to go to trial in March 2014.
‘As soon as the iPhone 5 was available for purchase, Samsung began its investigation of the product,’ the company said. ‘We have always preferred to compete in the marketplace with our innovative products, rather than in a courtroom. However, Apple continues to take aggressive legal action that will restrict market competition. Under these circumstances, we have little recourse but to take the steps necessary to protect our innovations and intellectual property rights.’
The additional action was announced just as a federal judge dissolved a three-month-old ban on sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 device in the US – another side-show in the battle with Apple.