As well as you known that Apple and Samsung are good partner, between the two companies, they have lots of cooperation. The earliest cooperation between Apple and Samsung was in the 2007, before Apples
Company issued IPhone; the Apple Company realized that if they want the mobile phone has good performance, they need good chip to support the phone; therefore, they found Samsung Company, and they began the cooperation. From 2007 to 2012, the Samsung Company is providing chips for the series of
IPhone and IPad. Similarly, the Apple Company is the largest client for Samsung, a research about the profits of Samsung; it shows that the profits from Apple Company took up the total profits of Samsung about
8.8%; it’s far more than the second largest client for 5.6%. However, nowadays, the biggest event is the patent infringement suit of Apple against Samsung. This lawsuit involves lots of the Apple and Samsung’s patents and the lawsuit is not confined on America, the Apple Company also prosecutes Samsung in other countries, such as Australia, Korea and European countries. From the Internet, I know that the patent infringement suit of Apple against Samsung because Samsung infringes the seven Apple’s patents, such as
Apple’s bounce-back effect when a user tries to scroll beyond the end of a list or image,
Apple’s pinching and zooming scroll feature and Apple’s tap-to-zoom feature, etc. (McCormack, 2012) According to the recent news, the Apple Company has wins the lawsuit and Samsung pays Apple for $1 billion. However, in the Korea, the lawsuit between Apple and Samsung, jury's decision is that the Apple Company did infringe on three patents of Samsung, and Apple should compensates for $ 350 million. Similarly, Samsung was judged for infringe on a patent of Apple, they should compensates for $ 220 million to Apple.
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