<p>The ITC has been urged to stop Apple shipping its popular iPods, iPhones and iPads into the US market from where they are manufactured, a Samsung spokesman said.It accuses Apple of breaching five patents related to wireless communications standards and mobile device user interface.<br /><br />"The complaint requests relief in the form of a permanent exclusion order prohibiting entry to the United States of all Apple products in violation of these patents," Samsung said in a statement.<br /><br />"Samsung will continue to actively defend our intellectual property in order to serve our customers and to ensure our continued innovation and leadership in the mobile communication business."<br /><br />The latest action escalated legal wrangling between the world's two fastest growing smartphone makers.<br /><br />The tussle began when Apple filed suit against Samsung in April in San Francisco, accusing the Korean firm of copying its smartphones and tablet computers.<br />Samsung responded later that month with a lawsuit in Seoul alleging five patent infringements by Apple.<br /><br />It filed separate actions in Tokyo, citing two patent infringements, and in the German city of Mannheim citing three.<br /><br />Last week Apple lodged a second lawsuit against Samsung with a district court in Seoul, asking for a sales ban on Samsung's latest products.<br /><br />It accused them of copying the iPhone and iPad.Samsung's Galaxy Tab has been a huge-selling rival to the iPad, which has dominated the growing market for the touchscreen devices.<br /><br />Despite their prickly competition in finished products, the two firms have a close business relationship.<br /><br />Apple was Samsung's second-largest client in 2010 after Japan's Sony, accounting for four percent of the South Korean firm's 155 trillion won ($142 billion) annual revenue.</p>
<p>The ITC has been urged to stop Apple shipping its popular iPods, iPhones and iPads into the US market from where they are manufactured, a Samsung spokesman said.It accuses Apple of breaching five patents related to wireless communications standards and mobile device user interface.<br /><br />"The complaint requests relief in the form of a permanent exclusion order prohibiting entry to the United States of all Apple products in violation of these patents," Samsung said in a statement.<br /><br />"Samsung will continue to actively defend our intellectual property in order to serve our customers and to ensure our continued innovation and leadership in the mobile communication business."<br /><br />The latest action escalated legal wrangling between the world's two fastest growing smartphone makers.<br /><br />The tussle began when Apple filed suit against Samsung in April in San Francisco, accusing the Korean firm of copying its smartphones and tablet computers.<br />Samsung responded later that month with a lawsuit in Seoul alleging five patent infringements by Apple.<br /><br />It filed separate actions in Tokyo, citing two patent infringements, and in the German city of Mannheim citing three.<br /><br />Last week Apple lodged a second lawsuit against Samsung with a district court in Seoul, asking for a sales ban on Samsung's latest products.<br /><br />It accused them of copying the iPhone and iPad.Samsung's Galaxy Tab has been a huge-selling rival to the iPad, which has dominated the growing market for the touchscreen devices.<br /><br />Despite their prickly competition in finished products, the two firms have a close business relationship.<br /><br />Apple was Samsung's second-largest client in 2010 after Japan's Sony, accounting for four percent of the South Korean firm's 155 trillion won ($142 billion) annual revenue.</p>