Samsung scoffs at Apple in California lawsuit defense filing

Friday, July 1, 2011 · 4:28 pm · 39 Comments

“Late on Thursday, Samsung filed its answer, affirmative defenses and counterclaims to the amended version of Apple’s complaint in Northern California,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.

Mueller reports, “Most of the document consists of ‘boilerplate’ and the usual wholesale denial of all allegations, but there are a few interesting things to say about it. In particular, Samsung scoffs at Apple’s attitude toward its competition by (repeatedly) stating the following: ‘The Samsung Defendants admit that they have not ceased competing with Apple notwithstanding Apple’s efforts to avoid such competition.’”

“That’s the obvious position for Samsung to take,” Mueller writes. “While Apple describes Samsung as ‘the copyist,’ Samsung naturally argues that it’s just competing.”

Much more in the full article, including Mueller’s updated “battlemap,” here.

MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:

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