Samsung has seemingly confirmed this week that it is not looking to change the release date of its landmark smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S3, and will contest a recent patent infringement claim filed by Apple this week which is hoping to ban the smartphone.

Apple has charged Samsung with infringing its patents related to its Siri voice-controlled assistant and other UI patents.  However, Samsung refutes those claims and has stated it plans to "demonstrate to the court that the Galaxy S3 is innovative and distinctive."

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is set to launch on most major United States carriers on June 21, and the Korean tech. giant will be hoping the newest lawsuit against it by Apple will not affect its plans for the newest version of its bestselling smartphone.

Apple is hoping to ban the Samsung Galaxy S3 from being sold in the United States, as well as Europe and Australia. This most recent claim is just one of numerous lawsuits filed between Apple and Samsung against one another across the globe. The two companies are currently embroiled in about 30 patent lawsuits across 10 different countries.

Samsung announced its plans to launch the Samsung Galaxy S3 on the five largest network service providers in the U.S. this week, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, U.S. Cellular and Verizon.

In other news it has also been reported that Samsung is planning to launch a special edition version of its Galaxy S3 phone in South Korea that will feature both a 1.4Ghz quad-core Exynos CPU and 2GB of RAM.

The standard version of the Galaxy S3 that was unveiled in the United Kingdom in May featured the quad-core Exynos chip with just 1GB of RAM.

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