Samsung Electronics seems to be determined to continue to its patent disputes with Apple after the US smartphone vendors reached a settlement with Taiwan-based HTC, according to industry sources.

In August, Samsung lost a lawsuit in a jury trial against Apple in San Jose and received a verdict requiring it pay up to US$1.05 billion to Apple for patent infringement.

But under a request by Samsung, a US federal judge ordered on November 21 that Apple must reveal an unredacted version of its agreement with HTC to Samsung.

Samsung argued that it required the complete unredacted version of the agreement as the included licensing terms were needed to effectively oppose Apple's bid for a number of permanent injunctions, according to an AppleInsider.com report.

JK Shin, president of mobile communications business unit at Samsung, also stressed that Samsung does not consider a settlement with Apple, while acknowledging that some media speculated that HTC might have to pay a royalty fees of up to US$276 million to Apple. Shih made the remarks to reporters in Korea.

With its status as being a global technology vendor, its diverse deployments in patent, and booming sales of its smartphones and tablets, Samsung is unlikely to surrender to Apple without a fight, despite the risks of being fined with a large sum of compensation or having its products barred from selling in the US, the sources commented.

While Apple is shifting its orders for memory products, display panels and application processors from Samsung to other suppliers, Samsung is reportedly fighting back by hiking the prices for CPUs sold to Apple by 20%.