Apple's Siri vs S-Voice litigation could ban the sales of the Samsung Galaxy S III in th

[garyopa]

Patent wars are cruder than ever



Apple filled a motion against Samsung (again) that could lead to the ban of the new Samsung's flagship smartphone in the U.S.

Back to the patents war, Apple has attacked Samsung filling another litigation for the similarities of S-Voice with its Siri.

This could prevent the Korean giant selling the new Galaxy S III in The States

According to Redmonpie:

The patent wars between Apple and Google are only heating up. On Tuesday, Apple filed a motion – in its second California litigation against Samsung – that could ban the sale of the Galaxy S III in the United States. Basically, they tossed the Galaxy S III in the same motion to ban the Galaxy Nexus in the US. But why? Because of infringements pertaining to Apple’s infamous voice command sassy butler Siri.

Apple isn’t too satisfied about some of the fairly blatant similarities between Samsung’s own proprietary S Voice interface and Siri, and this could cause some serious inconvenience for the people behind the roughly nine million or so rumored pre-orders of the Galaxy S III. More specifically, Apple claims that Samsung’s latest flagship Android phone violates two patents held by the company; one a unified search patent in regards to Siri, and the other a data-tapping patent that is also being used against HTC in a request for an immediate import ban of 29 infringing devices.

NEWS SOURCE #1: Apple formally requests US injunction (via) FossPatents
NEWS SOURCE #2: Apple seeks to ban sales of Samsung Galaxy SIII in U.S. for violating Siri patents (via) RedMondPie

Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news item!

[msanchez]

Why would samsung bother with this "Siri-like" crap? Android already had pretty usable voice commands I never saw the need to this S-Voice rubbish. In this case I would actually side with the imperial nazi innovation killers because sammy is blatantly trying to ride the Siri wave.