Samsung to fight back against Huawei’s patent suit

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday hinted that it might file a counter-suit against Huawei, which has sued the Korean company in the U.S. and China for infringing its technology patents. “We will take countermeasures, including a lawsuit (against Huawei),” Ahn Seong-ho, head of Samsung’s intellectual property division, told reporters after a weekly meeting of Samsung CEOs in Seoul. His comment came after the Chinese equipment giant filed patent suits in California in the U.S. and Shenzhen in China, claiming Samsung had illegally utilized its 4G network technology without permission. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in a federal court in San Francisco, Huawei claimed that Samsung infringed as many as 11 patents related to communications networks and software to run Long Term Evolution networks on 4G mobile devices. Click to read the rest of the article