And the cycle continues, not that anyone is surprised at this point

Sep 20, 2012 13:41 GMT  ·  By

Samsung may have lost the big round in the lawsuit started by Apple against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and several smartphones, but it is eager to turn the tables, or change the tables altogether as the case may be.

Though still recovering from not having been granted a lift on the ban against Galaxy Tab 10.1, Samsung has begun preparations for a new lawsuit.

This time, the company is going to hound Apple for allegedly infringing patents it owns for LTE technology.

LTE stands for Long Term Evolution and is a term used to determine pseudo-4G broadband connectivity.

We say pseudo-4G because, though some do see LTE as a type of 4G in its own right, others do not, for various reasons (not enough speed, coverage, future prospects, endorsement, etc.). But we digress.

Samsung has, so far, put together a preliminary filing as, according to FOSS Patents, there hasn't been enough time to properly examine the iPhone 5.

The iPhone 5 will soon be widely available though, at which point a decision will be made as to whether or not it is prudent to go forward.

Until then, the proceedings on the other front will follow their own course, and controversial advertisement campaigns will be norm.

We have little doubt that Samsung will press forward with amendments and the official complaint, but we continue to hope that maybe this patent war “trend” will settle down before it becomes an intrinsic part of the industry. It wasn't so bad when Rambus was the greatest offender, but now it is getting tedious.

For that matter, even NVIDIA and Intel didn't smack heads together so badly when the latter stopped allowing the former to make chipsets for its CPUs. This is arguably a much better reason to fight in a court room than round icon edges and rectangles, but the situation didn't degenerate into this, and definitely not so quickly.