Samsung Galaxy Nexus is designed to avoid future Apple patents

Samsung has admitted that the new Galaxy Nexus was designed specifically with bypassing Apple patents in mind, mobile president Shin Jong-kyun saying that the company "will avoid everything we can." Talking to Yohhap News, Shin said Samsung "take patents very seriously" but due to the complexity of intellectual property there was no guarantee that the Galaxy Nexus would be immune from ligitation.

"We will see if it will be 100 percent free" he conceded, describing the ongoing legal saga between Samsung and Apple as just the start of a lengthy and unrewarding process. "I don’t think there is much gain” Shin admitted, "what we are losing is the pride in our brand." That has not stopped Samsung from attempting to fight back, filing motions for preliminary injunctions against the new iPhone 4S inAustralia and Japan, France and Italy.