In a lawsuit between Apple and Samsung has the right to a sales ban pronounced, making Samsung the Galaxy Nexus is no longer in the United States may sell. Apple has patent infringement is plausible.
According to Dan Levine, that for Reuters, the lawsuit has followed, it goes to a preliminary injunction. Apple would be in court likely have made that Samsung patents infringement, where the former irreparable damage would have suffered through lost sales and loss of market share. According to Levine based the court for the ruling, particularly on a patent that a mechanism for a universal search engine describes. It is expected that Samsung against the judgment in appeal.
There were a total of four patents mentioned in the lawsuit that the Galaxy Nexus is running. In addition to the unified search patent there are patents that techniques for slide-to-unlock functionality, a technique for recognizing data structures on web pages and autocorrect to describe it. Because the Galaxy Nexus on a unmodified version of the Android operating system, is the ruling of the court is also of importance for Google, which is the conscious Android-software has been developed.
Apple have been trying for a long time Samsung products at the right prohibited to get. In Germany and the Netherlands succeeded in that, among other things, but the Korean manufacturer managed under the sales ban to come by the infringing element in the software. It is unclear whether that the ban on the Galaxy Nexus is also going to happen: software-updates will be made via Google have expired. The internetgigant will the Nexus device coming soon update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but it is not clear whether patentenschending than of the job is.
There is also still a case of Apple against the Galaxy S III, Samsung’s new Android flagship. It tries the company from Cupertino is also a sales ban to enforce.