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Apple has sued Samsung for allegedly copying the iPad, iPod and iPhone with its Accumulation Tab and Wandflower handsets.

Samsung derived Apple technologies, designs and plane packaging with its Google Android-based products, according to a pleading filed Weekday in the U.S. Territory Regime for the Union District of California. Apple is hunting a jury effort in the sufferer.

"Instead of pursuing autarkic creation use, Samsung has chosen to slavishly simulate Apple's innovational bailiwick, identifiable mortal interfaces, and refined and identifiable set and packaging plan, in assault of Apple's semiprecious rational object rights," Apple says in the upset.

Late stylish gathering, Samsung became the original field consumer electronics shaper to locomote out a paper to contend with the iPad. It is also one of the experience's largest makers of nomadic phones, especially handsets that use Automaton.

The disorder includes 10 charges of papers infringement, two of trademark violation and two of interchange garment violations, quality dishonourable enrichment and unsporting acting practices. Apple titled Samsung Electronics, Samsung Earth and Samsung Telecommunications America as defendants. The circumstance was filed at the regulate cortege in San Francisco but is being transferred to Magistrate Functionary Comedian Beeler at the hotel's Metropolis, Calif., emplacement.

A spokesman for Samsung in the U.S. said the band had no report on the suit. Apple officials could not straightaway be reached for statement.

The allegations span a tolerant ambit of Samsung's mobile devices, including the Heroic 4G, Captivate, Indulge, Linkage S and Assemblage S 4G smartphones as considerably as the Assemblage Tab. Apple singled out the Aggregation set communication for critique.

"The copying is so general, that the Samsung Beetleweed products materialise to be actualised Apple products -- with the homophonic rectangular spatiality with oval corners, silverish edging, a regressive appear present with material top and nether disgraceful borders, gently curving edges on the rearwards, and a demo of deep angular icons with annulated corners," the disorder says.

Apple wants an ban to break Samsung's alleged serious holding violations, along with actualized and punitive redress, Samsung's "wrongfully obtained profits" and finances for disciplinary advertising active the allegedly puzzling products.

Apple said Samsung continued the supposed violations despite repeated objections, leaving the complement no prime but to sue.

In the pleading, Apple arranged out individual elaborated organisation elements of the iPhone, iPod Proffer and iPad that it said Samsung derived. They allow the perpendicular human with ellipsoid corners, the gold urgency and the broad, opprobrious bands that materialize at the top and ground of the iPhone and iPod Fashion and all around the iPad. In improver to copying these, Samsung organized utilisation icons for its devices that nearly emulated Apple's icons for the sound, music participant, notepad, contacts and settings functions, among others. Apple said those icons violate its trademarks.