In the wake of Apple’s request to the court to bar the sales of eight Samsung smartphones that were found to have infringed on Apple’s patents, The Korean company has vowed to combat the injunctions with “all necessary measures.”
Samsung will combat Apple’s attempt to ban the sales of eight smartphones with “all necessary measures,” the company said in a statement issued to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Among the options available to Samsung are filing to stop the injunction, appealing if the injunction is granted by Judge Lucy Koh, and modifying its products to circumvent any bans.
Citing the ever popular “unnamed source”, the report also said that Samsung has begun talks with their wireless partners about “removing or modifying infringing features to keep products on the market if the injunctions are granted.”
Apple has asked the court to bar the sale of 8 Samsung devices, including the Galaxy S II lineup. The phones that Apple is requesting the sales ban on accounted for $1.3 billion of Samsung’s U.S. sales during the first six months of 2012. The 8 smartphones listed in the request accounted for the major portion of Samsung’s American profits, which were $1.5 billion in U.S. sales the first six months of 2012.
The injunctions request does not include Samsung’s recently released flagship model, the Galaxy S III, as the trial did not include that model. The Cupertino firm has filed a separate complaint against that device.
A jury determined last week that Samsung’s product did indeed infringe upon Apple’s patents, and awarded the iPhone maker over $1 billion in damages.
