苹果诉三星侵权

    Apple Inc. has sued* Samsung Electronics Co., saying the South Korean company’s Galaxy line of smart phones and tablet* computers copy Apple’s popular iPad and iPhone.

    In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Apple alleges* the product design, user interface* and packaging of the Galaxy products “slavishly* copy” Apple.

    “When a Samsung Galaxy phone is used in public, there can be little doubt that it would be viewed as an Apple product based upon the design alone,” Apple says in its lawsuit, which was filed Friday.

    Cupertino-based Apple is seeking an order forbiding Samsung from infringing on* a variety of its patents* and trademarks*, as well as other damages.

    A Samsung spokesman said the company’s products are the result of its own research and development. He says Samsung plans to defend* itself against Apple’s lawsuit.

    Apple first released the iPhone in 2007, and has since upgraded the device several times. The company released the iPad last year, and began selling the iPad 2 in March. The company had sold over 108 million iPhones and 19 million iPads, as well as more than 60 million of the iPod Touch, which is a digital music player that looks like the iPhone but can only access the Internet over Wi-Fi and cannot make calls.

    Samsung began selling the Galaxy smart phones and Galaxy Tab tablet computer in the United States last year, all of which run on Google’s Android operating software.

    Samsung is the world’s largest manufacturer of flat-screen televisions, liquid crystal displays* and computer memory chips. Its memory chips are used in the iPad.

    (SD-Agencies)