Apple Sues Samsung Again

Apple has filed two new lawsuits in Germany citing 10 Samsung smartphones and five Samsung tablets with infringing its design IP, the kind of peculiarly European intellectual property it used to get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 outlawed in Germany last year. Apparently the Düsseldorf Regional Court will hear the phone case in August and tablet case in September. The FOSS Patents blog figures Apple’s design rights assertions may make it impossible for the two companies to structure a mutually acceptable settlement and that they “may just need the courts to clarify the boundaries of Apple’s exclusive design-related rights.”

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