Samsung said that the Galaxy S III will be available in the U.S. starting this month from five carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular. The smartphone was launched in May in the U.K.

Apple obtained the Galaxy S III sold in the U.K., and found that it infringes at least two of four Apple patents at issue in a preliminary injunction motion filed by the company against the earlier Galaxy Nexus, Apple said in a filing on Tuesday before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division.

These are U.S. Patent No. relating to an universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system, and Patent No. regarding a system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data.

"Given the extent to which the Galaxy S III infringes and will cause immediate and irreparable harm to Apple, it is imperative that this Court have an opportunity to consider and rule upon Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction before the Galaxy S III is launched in the United States," Apple said in a filing while adding to its original complaint against the Galaxy Nexus.

Apple said it requested Samsung to confirm that it would not launch the Galaxy S III in the U.S. until the court has had an opportunity to consider and rule on Apple's motion for preliminary injunction. Samsung refused, stating that Apple's pending preliminary injunction motion will have no bearing on the release date of the Galaxy S III, Apple said.