Apple requests U.S. Supreme Court to not send dispute with Samsung to lower courts
Just yesterday, American technology giant Apple has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to make way for the company to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from Samsung.
Both companies who are leaders in the smartphone-world have been fighting because of patents for 5 years straight. Apple first sued Samsung in 2011 claiming that the company violated Apple's iPhone "patents, designs and trademarked appearance."
Now, Apple stated that Samsung failed to provide evidence to back-up it's argument. According to Reuters, Samsung's argument was that the "design patent damages should be decided on one component of a smartphone, rather than the entire product." Following this, Apple has requested the Supreme Court to not send the case back to a lower court.
A representative rejected to immediately comment on Samsung's behalf, however the company stated that "a ruling for Apple would diminish innovation and negatively impact the economy." Back in 2012, after a jury trial, Samsung required to compensate Apple $930 million. After that incident, the South Korean business has intended to cut down on that number.
Last year in May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit cut the damages on trademark liability. But the court did confirm that Samsung violated Apple's iPhone patents; a few examples are the "designs of the iPhone's rounded-corner front face, bezel and colourful grid of icons."
Consequently, $548 million was then the total amount that Samsung required to pay Apple. $399 million of that amount was based on the design patents. Let's not forget that damages on top of this could be included, but they depend on the results of individual appeals.
The Supreme Court has now been asked by Samsung to review the case. Samsung believe that the damages awarded are "excessive".
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Source: | Reuters |
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Image Credit: | Fortune |
