Apple prepare LTE patents to defense itself against Samsung

After Apple scored a huge victory against Samsung in the U.S. court and got $1 Billion for damages, the Korean company has pointed its LTE patent gun against Apple and is just waiting for an upcoming iPhone 5 with LTE to start firing in court. Samsung has the strongest LTE patent portfolio in the industry, holding more than 819 patents and a lot of those were developed by Samsung itself.

Apple on the other hand has also pre-emptively loaded the patent guns in defense mode Cupertino has a meager 44 LTE patents developed on its own, but it has been actively purchasing patents and with all of its acquired IP, Apple's LTE patent portfolio now amounts to 434 patents. U.S. patent firm InterDigital is the second-biggest player in LTE with 780 patents.

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