Copyright Issues Between Samsung and Apple

Question : Discuss any copyright issue between any two of the tech giants?

Samsung VS Apple

For many years Samsung and Apple has copyrights issues, against which Apple filed copyright case against Samsung many times. In 2011, when Samsung was going to launch its Galaxy tab 10.1. Once again Apple grab the opportunity to defame its competitor and file copyright case against Galaxy tab 10.1. In result, Samsung was not allowed to sell its product in entire Europe.

The regional court of Dusseldorf had accepted the request of Apple, which accuses the Korean company of having infringed the copyright of some elements of the iPad 2 integrating them without permission in its tablet, and had issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the distribution of the tablet and blocks any Samsung marketing action. The injunction affects all European territory. Samsung was appealed on appeal, but in the meantime the sales of the Galaxy Tab was blocked until the new court decision, which had taken place within four weeks.

It's no accident that Samsung's latest products look a lot like iPhone and iPad - said an Apple spokesperson, from the shape of the hardware to the packaging of the products. we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when other companies steal our ideas. 

The legal battle between Apple and Samsung had already broken out in April, when Apple had sued Samsung in a court in northern California, accusing the Korean company of copying iPhone and iPad, and a few days ago in Australia, for the same reason, but in that case Samsung had ironically declared that " no intention to sell in Australia ", but the companies had however found an agreement according to which the variant would not be put on sale" down under ".  Oracle Corporation filled a copyright case against Google back in 2010, saying that the online search engine giant violated their terms given in copyright and legal permits in the creating of operation system of Android mobiles.

The issue is centered around some of the JAVA language API’s (Application Programming Interface) which is copied by google in order to make android accessible to JAVA developers, the copyright issue also claimed using of 11,500 lines of JAVA code in its Android operating system, though anything remarkable was not copied by them from the JAVA language but still this created a controversy when google received a sue notice from ORACLE in which they had claimed the in-part copyright infringement in the API.

On this issue the lower court puts the case in favor of Google, however later ORACLE appeal for that ruling due to which the decision was overturned and soon after that Google has taken the case to the Supreme Court and after the case run for so long time the supreme court has recently announced the Google clear, saying that the use of 37 API’s of JAVA by Google is fair.

This also ends the six year long legal battle of Android code copyright between the two tech giants, but this decision is still can’t be termed final as Oracle still have a chance to appeal against the decision.