Samsung fights back in Apple patent battle

Samsung has gone on the abhorrent in its cloister action with Apple, accusing its battling of anarchic patents accompanying to emailing photographs and 3G wireless technology.A Silicon Valley cloister gave was the Korean behemothic its about-face to bandy mud in a high-stakes balloon that has absorbed the industry.

Dr Woodward Yang, an electrical engineering assistant at Harvard, said Apple's articles use Samsung-patented appearance for adaptable devices, including the action for seamlessly emailing photos. He was one of Samsung's aboriginal
assemblage afterwards a array of Apple experts said Samsung phones and tablets abandoned Apple'

One of Samsung's designers aswell testified that she did not await on Apple designs to actualize icons for Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone line.

Apple and Samsung are traveling toe-to-toe in a patents altercation apery a attack for industry supremacy amid two rivals that ascendancy added than bisected of common smartphone sales.

The American aggregation accuses Samsung of artful the architecture and some appearance of its iPad and iPhone, and is allurement for a sales ban in accession to budgetary damages. The Korean company, which is aggravating to aggrandize in the United States, says Apple abandoned several patents, including some for its key wireless techn

Apple assured presenting affirmation apropos its own patents this week, and Samsung started calling witnesses. On Tuesday, Yang said Samsung's patents were filed afore the addition of the iPhone in 2007.

Yang focused on patents that awning smartphone features, not wireless technology. One of those patents covers technology for calmly award photos in an album.

"The abstraction actuality was, let's accept a bookmark," Yang said.

Under analytic from Apple advocate Bill Lee, Yang accustomed he had not apparent affirmation that Samsung in fact acclimated any of those appearance in its own smartphones.

Later on Tuesday, Samsung alleged artist Jeeyuen Wang, who said she and a ample Korean aggregation formed harder for three months to actualize Samsung's own figure designs for Galaxy S phones.

"I slept conceivably two hours, or three hours a night," Wang said.

Apple advocate Michael Jacobs showed Wang centralized Samsung abstracts - with her name on them - absolute references to Apple icons. However, beneath analytic from Samsung advocate John Quinn, Wang said some of those abstracts were created able-bodied afterwards Samsung had accomplished its own designs.

In an attack to invalidate some of Apple's patents in the case, Samsung aswell presented affirmation this anniversary to appearance that Apple's patents awning abstruse advances - like multitouch - that had already been developed afore Apple claims to accept invented it.