In a court hearing of lawsuits yesterday between Apple and Samsung in Australia, the latter company finally got access to Apple’s source code for the iPhone 4S, after Apple didn’t agree to provide subsidy information with its carriers to Samsung.
Other matters appeared to be resolved, including Samsung’s access to the firmware used in the iPhone 4S’ baseband chip, supplied by Qualcomm.
A software expert had approximately two hours’ access to the firmware and would submit his findings by Sunday.
Samsung had finally access of iPhone’s source code which code prove whether Apple infringes the Korean giant’s patents or not and also it could give Samsung to concentrate on something else if its not the case.
FOSSPatents analyzes that Samsung has the upper hand in the lawsuits against Apple in Germany as the Mannheim hearing set a schedule for January 20 and 27 next year 2012, and favored Samsung.
The two patents asserted in today’s litigations are
* EP1005726 on a “turbo encoding/decoding device and method for processing frame data according to QoS”, and
* EP1114528 on an “apparatus and method for controlling a demultiplexer and a multiplexer used for rate matching in a mobile communication system”.
Samsung’s third German complaint against Apple, which wasn’t at issue today, relates to EP1188269 on an “apparatus for encoding a transformat format combination indicator for a communication system”.
The hearing mostly focused on the construction of the scope of patents. Apple went on the direction of claiming those patents to have no meaning, whereas the judge didn’t side with Apple on that one and stated to prove Samsung’s patent requests to be invalid if it wants decision on it favor.
Apple tried to convince those lawsuits against it to be standard and said that Samsung never brought out such allegation during their years of doing business together. However, the judge ruled that Apple must first ask for license before it can make any complains.
Apple also claimed that license fee is already paid by its cellular chip-set maker but was unable to provide details. Well its looks like winning streak for Apple may come to a halt as it’s performance lately has been very weak. Lets see what happens in the coming days to come.
Source BY chiphazard.com
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