After Apple sued Samsung back in April over claims that the Korean company's Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets ripped off Apple's iPhone software, hardware, and design patents, Samsung fired back. It filed lawsuits against Apple in Europe and Asia, and it filed a patent infringement countersuit against Apple here in the US.
That lawsuit quickly got messy, with both sides demanding access to unreleased prototypes of the other's hardware as part of the case and firing off accusations of harassment at their opponents. Today, though, it was reported that Samsung decided to drop its US countersuit.
According to Bloomberg, which got hold of a Samsung rep in Seoul, the case was actually dismissed on June 30. The dismissal will "streamline" Samsung's legal caseload, according to the report, but Samsung will continue its overseas cases and continue to prosecute an earlier US case against Apple.
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