Apple Renews Sales Ban of Samsung Smartphones and Tablets

Apple wants to make sure that the court order imposing sales ban on 20 Samsung smartphones and tablets will be implemented according to latest provision.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company, which started the legal battle in 2011, asked San Jose, Calif. District Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday to prohibit sales of over 20 Samsung smartphones and tablets that were found to infringe Apple’s patents.

“Samsung’s claim that it has discontinued selling the particular models found to infringe or design around Apple’s patents in no way diminishes Apple’s need for injunctive relief,” Apple argued in the filing as reported by Bloomberg. “Because Samsung frequently brings new products to market, an injunction is important to providing Apple the relief it needs to combat any future infringement by Samsung through products not more than colorably different from those already found to infringe.”

Despite the fact that Apple’s request for a sales ban in the infringed Samsung device was rejected in a 2012 verdict, a federal appeals court on November 19 allowed Apple to appeal for a ban covering some of the South Korea-based company’s devices.

According to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, Apple could focus its request on infringement of patents like multi-touch technology and bounce back technology. However, the iPhone maker can’t block Samsung products for infringing patented designs.

Adam Yates, a spokesperson for the Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung, didn’t immediately respond to Bloomberg's email requesting for comments.

The two biggest and most sought after smartphone manufacturers in the market have doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in paying legal fees on claims of infringing each other’s features in a global battle to dominate the market.

The International Data Corp. (IDC), a research firm based in Framingham, Massachusetts, said in the report Apple had a 13 percent share in the third quarter of this year, while Samsung had 31 percent.