An epic battle between the two biggest smartphone makers begins Monday in a federal district court in San Jose, Calif., where computing giant Apple is asking for more than $2.5 billion from rival phone maker Samsung for patent violations.
The suit would be the most expensive patent violation in history, and it’s just one front in Apple’s war against phones running Google’s Android operating system.
“This is officially World War III,” says Carl Howe, an analyst with Yankee Group. “I think this is a case of whether the iPhone really, as Apple claims, changed the world in 2007.”
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