TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) – Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit, charging that Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Nexus phone violates four of the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant’s patents, weekend media reports say.
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) – Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit, charging that Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Nexus phone violates four of the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant’s patents, weekend media reports say.
The latest suit was filed Feb. 8 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., and made available Friday, reports say.
The patents in question include one covering the feature called slide to unlock, in which a user opens access to a phone by swiping an image of a button, the reports say.
Another involves data tapping, in which the system can recognize, say, a phone number in an e-mail and enable the user to immediately call that number. Late last year, the U,S. International Trade Commission banned HTC Corp.’s phones that used the feature, and that HTC then developed a workaround for the function.
A third patent violation, Apple charges in the case, involves technology that helps complete partial words that a phone user inputs. And the fourth is tied to Apple’s voice-activated search function called Siri, reports say.
The lawsuit asks the court to block sales of the Galaxy Nexus, which employs Google’s Android 4.0 operating system, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich.
A Samsung spokesman couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
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