Reading the meaty new amended complaint that Apple and its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster filed against Samsung on Thursday for allegedly ripping off iPhone and iPad designs and technology, your humble correspondent was reminded of the day he covered the first iPhone’s debut back in 2007. At the time he naively wondered whether all the sweaty gadget fans waiting outside Apple’s 5th Avenue store in Manhattan were taking things a bit too seriously. Four years later smartphones are everywhere, and the metastasizing patent wars over the devices have the Litigation Daily zig-zagging from docket to docket trying to keep up.
In just the last few days, Nokia squeezed a settlement from Apple over infringement claims related to the iPhone and Oracle revealed that it wants billions from Google for allegedly infringing Java patents in its Android smartphone operating system. Apple’s new complaint against Samsung, meanwhile, threatens to blow up virtually all of the Korean manufacturer’s lineup of smartphones and tablets.
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