Many customers are already aware of the fact that not so long ago Apple had to apply vigorous efforts in order to secure its own trademark for the iPad in China. Now the high-tech monster is facing another trouble which is no less nasty than the previous one. To be short the company is currently going after its rights over the likeness of one tablet.
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As revealed by NetworkWorld, Apple lodged a motion via a California court on May 1st claiming that Samsung had spoiled a significant amount of evidence. According to the company, Samsung failed to preserve necessary documents for the discovery process in the ongoing patent combat between the two tech giants. Apple thus accuses its opponent of blatantly neglecting is duty to preserve relevant evidence.
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A Mannheim court Apple had filed an appeal with ruled that its push email options in iCloud and MobileMe infringe on Motorola patents and must be banned permanently. The company was also ordered to pay Motorola damages, although it wasn’t specified how much.
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Apple’s attempt to appeal its rejected early ban on certain Samsung products in the U.S. has been largely unsuccessful. Although Judge Lucy Koh, who oversaw the main case, found it possible that Samsung had imitated Apple technology, there was no sufficiently strong evidence that any copying on the part of the South Korean company was doing any harm to Apple’s business. The California device maker had tried to argue there was no need to prove it had lost customers, implying that the very instance of infringement should be enough to get the asserted devices banned.
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On Friday, the ITC has turned down the first filing of a set of complaints lodged by HTC against Apple, ruling that the California device maker didn’t infringe on its power management patent. The Taiwanese firm has a right to appeal the decision, though it hasn’t made any announcement of such plans so far. If HTC opts not to appeal, the dismissal could put an end to its lawsuit versus Apple that was first filed in May of 2010 and has been eventually reduced to just one out five initially claimed patents.
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