Patent Licensing and Litigation
Main article: Smartphone wars See also: Apple Inc. litigation, Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Motorola Mobility v. Apple Inc.The rate of lawsuits, trade complaints, and countersuits and complaints based on patents and designs, in the markets for smartphones and devices based on smartphone OSes such as Android and iOS, increased greatly in 2010 as companies engaged in patent wars. A smartphone war between Samsung and Apple started when Apple claimed that the original Galaxy S Android phone copied its iOS in terms of interface and possibly the hardware of iPhone 3GS.
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