Samsung tells court Apple‘s multitouch is better than Android

Apple and Samsung are currently embroiled in a patent war spanning the globe. Apple is on the war path aiming to get Samsung devices banned. A US jury had recently ordered Samsung to pay Apple USD 1.05 billion. The hearing for the amount to be paid in damages is yet to take place but it was indeed a big win for Apple. A lawsuit is also going on in the Netherlands, and in what seems as a desperate attempt to avoid a sales ban in the country, a Samsung lawyer has stated that Android’s multitouch software is not good as Apple’s.According to a report by Loek Essers, Apple had told the court that Samsung should be barred from selling their Android devices in Netherlands because they infringed on a multitouch patent that belonged to Apple called ‘touch event model.’ This patent revolves around the way the device handles presses that do not take place on the intended area. Apple have stated that Android devices that run on Android operating software of Gingerbread and later violate their patent. Click here for full story