Samsung Sues Apple Over Notification Center in South Korea

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Posted December 22, 2012 at 7:28pm by Shalom Levytam

Samsung has sued Apple over its Notification Center in South Korea, according to a iNews24 report relayed by Brightwire.

Samsung Electronics has brought a lawsuit against Apple in a court in South Korea over its "Notification Center" patent infringement. Notification Center is a feature that shows all notifications, such as email, texts and weather, by touching and dragging down the top of an iPhone screen.

PatentlyApple believes that the delay in Samsung launching a lawsuit over Notification Center may have been due to notification patents filed by Google that were still pending. One of these patents entitled, "Priority inbox notifications and synchronization for mobile-messaging application" was granted last month.

Another Google patent entitled, "Notification of Mobile Device Events," is still pending.

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Samsung Sues Apple Over Notification Center in South Korea

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Guest - December 23, 2012 at 1:13pm

Isn't that a google's patent????

Guest - December 23, 2012 at 4:43pm

Cuz google doesnt want to be the evil, so they r letting Samsung to do this?!?

highly-expected - December 23, 2012 at 3:35am

don't worry samsung will win in korea like how apple would win in the usa.

Ravisupernish - December 23, 2012 at 2:51am

There was a story like bread and monkey

vtr4423 - December 22, 2012 at 10:58pm

Apple is scare Samsung..... i has both phones, S3 is much better than iphone.

It is a matter of taste... - December 23, 2012 at 9:01am

To be used in North Korea without wifi or data plan... S3 should well suits your needs! :)))

Clear path for Google... - December 22, 2012 at 10:15pm

When Apple and Samsung will have spent billions in courts, Google will have a clear path to smash them both!

Ken - December 22, 2012 at 10:14pm

So why is Samsung suing and not Google? What claim can Samsung have when they created nothing?

Nacho Libre - December 23, 2012 at 5:16am

Because Google is the owner of Android? Samsung would be nothing without Google's operative system.

Guest - December 23, 2012 at 4:40pm

Cuz google doesnt want to be the evil, so they r pushing Samsung to do this!!!

Dan - December 22, 2012 at 9:54pm

This is getting ridiculous!

Devon - December 22, 2012 at 9:00pm

Samsung, stop suing Apple. Apple, stop suing Samsung. Honestly, this is getting to be ridiculous now.

Anonymous - December 26, 2012 at 2:27am

True that!

Darryn - December 22, 2012 at 8:59pm

Stop suing for flip sakes!!!! I'm so sick of this suing business. Can't you all just play fair???!!!!?? Can't you just be friendly competition?

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Spr1nt3R - December 22, 2012 at 7:56pm

This is actually right! Apple copied the notification centre concept from Android. PS: I use both Apple and Android

Hulk - December 22, 2012 at 8:09pm

Actually they got that from the cydia store ....

AppleMan12 - December 22, 2012 at 9:26pm

Actually,the tweak in Cydia was a copy of the Notification Center that was already in Android for a long time before.Many Apple users asked for a notification center in iOS,so Apple decided to integrate it.Samsung doesn't own Android,they just use it,so it's quite a surprise they sue Apple....I would expect Google to do it...boh....we,as end users,should really care,we pay so we want the most for our money,let them sue eachother!