Apple’s suit on Samsung ‘unfair’: Google

New Delhi : Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, who is on a visit to India, said on Wednesday that Apple was using patent lawsuits to block Samsung’s market, while denying people the choice to buy the products of the Korean company.

Apple won a Dollar1.05 billion verdict last August against Samsung, but Dollar450 million was slashed from that amount and a new damages trial was ordered. Apple’s request for a permanent sales ban against several Samsung phones was also rejected.

Speaking to mediapersons in New Delhi, Schmidt said that it was only recently that telecommunications companies have started using patent lawsuits to counter healthy competition and called Apple’s case on Samsung ‘unfair’.

The executive chairman of Google was quick to point out the untapped source of around 600 million Indians who are yet to join the world wide web.