Apple’s iPhone 5 is expected to be sued by Samsung

Samsung is expecting to sue Apple over the iPhone 5. Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it anticipates accusing Apple Inc. of patent infringement over the iPhone 5. With that second case not due for trial until 2014, however, Samsung’s plan is unlikely to affect the availability of Apple’s new smartphone.

In the highest-profile  ruling yet, a jury in U.S. Federal Court in San Jose, California found that Samsung infringed on six Apple patents and Apple infringed on none of Samsung’s. It ordered Samsung to pay @1 billion in damages,  but the judge hasn’t set the final damage amount.

On Samsung’s statement about the iPhone 5 indicates it will follow suit.

“Based on information currently available, Samsung expects the iPhone 5 will infringe the asserted Samsung patents-in-suit in the same way as the other accused iPhone models,” the company’s attorneys told the court in filling. They added that Samsung would decide whether to amend “as soon as it has had a reasonable opportunity to analyze the device.”

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