I’m getting increasingly tired of the tech pissing contest, with everyone suing everyone else for every possible potential infringement, and I was idly wondering recently if there’s ever a line companies would not cross. It appears not. AllThingsD reports on Samsung’s latest shot across the bows at Apple:

A Mannheim Regional Court on Friday ordered a stay of a Samsung suit against Apple that alleges the iPhone maker’s VoiceOver screen-access technology violated its patent on display into speech data.

VoiceOver is accessibility technology, designed for people with impaired vision. In short, it enables blind people to use iOS devices, which gives them relatively easy access to information in a manner previously unheard of. AllThingsD notes:

Yes, this move by Samsung against Apple was a tactical one in a nasty battle in which billions of dollars are at stake. Yes, it’s just business. But it’s ill-conceived.

I’d say it’s reprehensible. There are some things lawyers should just leave alone, and I genuinely hope Samsung gets a seriously bloody nose from this

Further reading: David Chartier’s story about watching a blind Apple Store employee use VoiceOver. Via 512 Pixels.