Spansion, the world's leading pure-play provider of slash memory solutions, announced to have filed two separate patent infringement complaints against Samsung with the International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court in Delaware.
Claims are quite extreme, as Spansion is seeking the exclusion from the U.S. market of over one hundred million mp3 players, cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer electronic devices branded or not by Samsung and containing Samsung's flash memory. In other words, it would affect all iPod and iPhone models, as well as all MacBook models using a SSD.
Apple will probably follow this story, and even push Samsung to find a financial agreement with Spansion to stop both legal actions. While christmas time is approaching it would be a disaster for Apple if one could not sell any iPod in USA
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