Samsung tried to counter rapidly mounting losses in court on Tuesday by filing a lawsuit against Apple in France. The Parisian complaint alleges that the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and 3G-capable iPads all violate three patents Samsung claims to have for UMTS-based 3G data. Samsung was unusually emphatic in saying the issue was over patents and not the design, which it was unlikely to win given the upheld preliminary ban on its own tablets for an allegedly imitative look last week.
