Samsung Suing Apple Over Emoticons

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[size=5]Samsung has opened a new offensive in its ongoing patent dispute with smartphone arch-rival Apple.[/size][/font][/color]
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[size=5]Fresh claims, filed in Germany, charge Apple with violating a pair of patents relating to the implementation of the WCDMA 3G telecom standard and another two patents relating to smartphone utilities, one of which involves the display of emoticons.[/size][/font][/color]
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[size=5]"(Samsung) made four more claims; two are standard-related patents and the other two are utility patents. And a court said it would make these claims separate from the April lawsuit," a Samsung spokesman [url="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/19/us-samsung-apple-patent-idUSTRE7BI07Y20111219"]told[/url] Reuters.[/size][/font][/color]
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[size=5]A German regional court in Mannheim dealing with the separate but related lawsuit over 3G handset tech, filed in April, said on Friday that it expected to publish a judgment in this case on 2 March.[/size][/font][/color]
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[size=5]The scores are even so far in the bruising smartphone-tablet patent battle between Samsung and Apple. An Australian court lifted a ban on the sale of the Galaxy Tab fondleslab in the country in late November. However Samsung suffered a setback days before this when a Paris court refused to block sales of Apple's iPhone 4S in France.[/size][/font][/color]
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[size=5]Earlier this month a US court rejected Apple's bid to get an early ban on the sale of Samsung products in the country.[/size][/font][/color]