International Trade Commission confirmed that the products of the signing of the four patents infringed apple from south Korea’s
Samsung welcomed the decision of the International Trade Commission (ITC by its acronym in english) to prohibit sales and imports to the US of older models of iPhone and iPad patent infringement on Apple’s part.
“We believe that the final decision of the ITC confirms the history of Apple to take advantage of the technological innovations from Samsung,” said Posco in a brief statement.
“We are going to give continuity to these decades of research and development in mobile technologies and to continue offering innovative products to consumers,” he concluded.
The ITC, an independent federal agency in the U.S. , issued on the eve an order to prohibit to Apple, with headquarters in California, the sale and importation of some of their devices, such as the phones iPhone 3 and 4, and the iPad and iPad tablets 2.
The order of this government agency of EE.UU, that maintains direct contact with the White House you will reach the president Barack Obama and, if this does not impose its veto in 60 days, shall enter into force.
In this way, the ITC confirms the version of Samsung that Apple products infringe four patents of technology, including those relating to the transmission of data and the dialing method, as it exposed the South Korean firm in the corresponding lawsuit filed in June 2011.
Although it is expected that Obama does not impose its veto, Apple has already indicated its willingness to appeal the decision, which downplayed arguing that you do not have a high impact on the availability of their products in the U.S. , among other things because it does not affect the newer as the iPhone 5 or the iPad Mini.
It is the second important victory of Samsung on Apple this year in the United States.UU., once past March a California Court downgraded to almost 600 million dollars the fine imposed earlier on the South Korean’s $ 1 billion firm for violating patents of rival.
