{"id":49595,"date":"2012-05-09T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49595"},"modified":"2012-05-09T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:49:14","slug":"apple-samsung-drop-some-patent-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49595-apple-samsung-drop-some-patent-suits.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Samsung drop some patent suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has nearly halved the amount of patent infringement claims it is pursuing against <a title=\"Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333656-Samsung\">Samsung<\/a>, while Samsung has dropped 5 of their 12 patent claims, according to a report by Foss Patents.<\/p>\n<p>The dropped suits don\u2019t seem to be enough for either company, however.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung claims that Apple\u2019s case against them is still far too big, and wants the Cupertino-based company to drop even more claims.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Apple is accusing Samsung of being uncooperative, claiming that the South Korean technology giant became the largest smartphone vendor in the world by copying and infringing on its technology.<\/p>\n<p>If a settlement between the two companies can\u2019t be reached, a trial is scheduled to begin in July 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/05\/08\/apple-samsung-drop-numerous-patent-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the largest mobile phone companies have agreed to drop various patent infringement claims against each other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,645,275],"class_list":["post-49595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-samsung","tag-software-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49597,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595\/revisions\/49597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}