Of all the pretrial litigation tools available to combatants in the ever-expanding smartphone IP wars, one of the most fearsome — albeit hard to win — is a motion for a preliminary injunction to block a competitors’ products. Now one of biggest wireless carriers in the smartphone industry is stepping in to say enough is enough.
Verizon Wireless, the second largest wireless carrier in the country, backed Samsung on Friday in its defense against a preliminary injunction bid by Apple in a patent suit pending in San Jose federal district court. Verizon’s amicus brief, authored by lawyers at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, argues that the injunction would harm Verizon and consumers as it “would prohibit some of the newest, most advanced wireless devices sold today and impede the growth of Verizon Wireless’s high-speed 4G network.”
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