This is getting a little ridiculous. The patent battle between Apple and Samsung expanded again today with Samsung filing suit against Apple in the Netherlands.
According to Dutch Web site webwereld.nl, Samsung filed suit in The Hague, demanding that iPhones and iPads that use 3G technology be banned in the Netherlands. The court will address the case, which covers four patents, on Monday, the site said.
In August, the Rechtbank's-Gravenhage, a court in The Hague, imposed a ban on Samsung Galaxy smartphones but not the tablets, at the request of Apple. The ban will take effect in mid-October.
The patent dispute between Apple and Samsung began in April, when Apple sued Samsung for copying the look and feel of its iPhone and iPad in its flagship Galaxy S line of devices; a suit that was later expanded to include 13 more products, including the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Nexus S 4G, and the Droid Charge.
The battle has now expanded to almost two dozen countries; most recently, Samsung sued Apple in France, and the Korean company is reportedly preparing to sue Apple for infringing wireless patents in the iPhone 5, even though it hasn't been officially released.
Thus far, Apple has been successful in getting the Galaxy Tab 10.1 temporarily banned in Germany. Samsung also agreed to delay the release of the tablet in Australia, though Samsung recently filed a countersuit.
For more, see Every Place Samsung and Apple Are Suing Each Other (as of Sept. 14).
Earlier this month, meanwhile, Apple won a fight over who has the thinnest smartphone. The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found that Apple's claims of having the world's thinnest smartphone with its iPhone 4 is indeed accurate, despite Samsung's protests.
All this comes as Samsung releases its Galaxy S II smartphone in the United States. For more, see PCMag's hands on and the slideshow below.