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SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the U.S. firm's iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case after Apple claimed Samsung's smartphones and tablets "slavishly" copied its products.

Apple filed a lawsuit terminal weekday alleging Samsung desecrated patents and trademarks of its iPhone and iPad, as the favourite gadgets are existence threatened by the fast uprise of competition devices based on Google's free Android operating system.

The jural effort between Apple and Samsung could threaten playing ties between the digit profession companies, as the Cupertino, California-based consort depends heavily on Samsung for components such as chips and LCD displays.

Operating systems have emerged as the key field for ascendency of the world's smartphone market.

Android became the most favourite smartphone software in the United States in the threesome months success in February, ahead of Apple and Research in Motion, according to a past survey by investigate concern comScore.

Samsung is digit of the fastest ontogeny smartphone makers on the back of the Android godsend and has emerged as Apple's strongest competitor in the paper market, with models in threesome sizes.

COUNTER LAWSUITS

Samsung said in a evidence weekday that Apple's iPhone and iPad infringe Samsung's 10 ambulatory profession patents and it titled for Apple to kibosh infringing its profession and equilibrate the company.

Samsung said the suits, filed in South Korea, Japan and Germany, involved 10 questionable infringements of patents mainly involving noesis reduction during accumulation transmission, 3G profession for reducing errors during accumulation transmission, and wireless accumulation communication technology.

"Samsung is responding actively to the jural state condemned against us in visit to protect our intellectual property and to secure our continuing innovation and growth in the ambulatory communications business," the evidence said.

Global profession companies are locked in a web of litigation as they essay to defend their shares of the booming paper and smartphone market.

Strong income of the iPhone and iPad alter into more income for Samsung. Apple was Samsung's second-biggest computer after Japan's Sony Corp terminal year, transfer in around 6.2 1E+12 Asiatic won ($5.7 billion) of sales, and is widely due to become Samsung's top computer this year.

The effort comes ahead of Samsung actuation a newborn edition of its successful Galaxy S smartphone incoming hebdomad in Korea, a key creation for the world's No.2 phone concern to meet its direct of 60 million units of smartphone income this year.

Shares in Samsung, Asia's large profession consort with a mart continuance of $140 billion, lapse 2.5 proportionality by 0410 time after threesome serial sessions of gains, versus a 0.2 proportionality fall in the broader market.

($1 = 1080.950 Asiatic Won)

(Editing by Ken Wills and Anshuman Daga)

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