Samsung Electronics Co. won the right to continue selling its Galaxy Nexus in the U.S. while it continues to settle a patent-infringement case with Apple.
Samsung's request to lift a ban on sales was approved by the U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday, allowing the phone company to keep selling its smart phone.Samsung is not completely in the clear however, as it still has to fight a lawsuit from Apple over whether or not the Galaxy Nexus infringed four patents.
Despite the record breaking sales for Apple's newest product the iPhone 5, the company is still worried that Samsung will still business away from them by using technology that Apple created themselves.
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Apple feels that most people living in the U.S. have not completely switched to smartphones yet, and if they are going to do so eventually, they want it to be with them not their closest competitor.
The Court of Appeals ruled that Apple failed to prove that consumers bought Samsung products due to the supposed infringed technology according to Reuters. The Galaxy Nexus isn't even considered the company's biggest priority right now either, as Samsung is preparing to release new tablets and smartphones sometime before the holiday season.
Apple's main problem with the Galaxy Nexus is that it infringes patents that cover the way the iPhone's Siri voice program searches for information, automatic recognition of phone numbers or e-mail addresses, its slide-to-unlock function and a word- recommendation feature according to the initial complaint filed by Apple.
The remaining case won't be settled until Mar. 2014, which makes today's ruling that much more important. Samsung can sell those phones worry free for a little over a year and a half.
Apple won a huge legal battle over Samsung in Aug. this past year when it was determined Samsung had copied specific features of the from Apple's iPhone and iPad. They were awarded $1.05 billion in damages.
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