This patent war has really escalated to be global in nature. An interesting turn of events came about in Japan recently, as Samsung's accusation of Apple's infringement was rejected. It turns out that the scope of their patent war spans about 10 countries, with a dozen or so cases pending in Japan.
A few months ago, Samsung won a case regarding patent infringement. This particular case that was recently overturned has been considered since nearly two years ago. Samsung has claimed that Apple is using one of its data transmission techniques without paying the licensing fee. If this case had gone through in Samsung's favor, there was the likelihood that Apple's products could have been banned in Japanese markets.
The real interesting part of it all is that I had assumed that Samsung was playing the defensive consistently. Now that the firm is playing the offensive, there is a lot more interesting patents that come to light. Data transmission is one, but we also can't forget that there are design patents too, like the rounded corners that Apple has so publicly fretted over.
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