Remember the legal battle Apple and Samsung were embroiled in with Apple arguing Samsung blatantly stole its iPhone design? Yes, it’s still going on. Apple was originally awarded $1 billion in damages, but Samsung got it down $400 million, and now, thanks to another appeal, that sum is being redetermined at another trial. United States District Court for the Northern District of...
Samsung is preparing to take its ongoing patent war with Apple to the Supreme Court, according to papers filed by the South Korean company earlier this week. The move comes after Samsung's plea to the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals was rejected. Samsung is hoping that the 2012 ruling in favor of Apple, which found Samsung guilty of patent infringement and ordered it to pay $1.05...
In 2012, a jury in California officially decided that Samsung infringed on Apple patents. The court ultimately ruled that Samsung owed Apple about $930 million in damages, including more than $320 million in payments related to "trade dress dilution." An appeals court on Monday, which was tasked with reexamining that $320 million infringement, ruled in Samsung's favor. The appeal...
Samsung on Thursday pleaded with a U.S. appeals court not to force the company to pay out the $930 million it owes Apple. In a an older ruling, Samsung was ordered to pay the iPhone maker the immense sum for infringing on Apple patents when making its Galaxy line—the millions of dollars is actually a reduction of the $1 billion that was initially awarded. The lawsuit, which is for all...
Apple has filed new court documents in California requesting not only a retail of its latest victory over Samsung, but is also seeking a permeant injunction on sales of Samsung's infringing products in the U.S. On Friday Apple filed new legal documents that request that all of the Samsung devices found to infringe its patents in the second California trial should be banned from sale as...
Yesterday we learned Apple and Samsung were meeting to discuss a possible end to seemingly endless patent disputes, but it looks like early talks between the two rival companies aren't going very well. A court filing obtained by The Verge reveals just how poorly early meetings between Apple and Samsung are going, with both companies trading insults instead of moving towards a final...
Last week a jury officially reached a verdict in the latest trial between Apple and Samsung. The jury ultimately decided that both firms infringed on some patents, but that Samsung owed Apple $119.6 million. It also awarded $158,400 to Samsung. Now, according to a report from Bloomberg, Samsung is going to continue fighting against the ruling. Bloomberg said Samsung is ready to take...
The Apple-Samsung saga has come to a temporary end—Samsung, a jury voted, owes Apple roughly $120 million after finding the company to have infringed on patents relating to the iPhone. The decision put an end to a long-lasting battle that once saw Steve Jobs declare "thermonuclear war" on Android and its underlings. Samsung, after releasing its Galaxy S in 2010, was Apple's prime target...
The latest Apple vs. Samsung trial came to a close last night, and while there is still some business to be settled on Monday morning – Apple found one infringing device that the jury did not assigned a damage amount to – we know which devices the jurors ruled on. We’ve made a couple scorecards for you for each side of the trial so you can easily see which products were accused of...
After several days of deliberation, the jury has reached a verdict in the latest Apple vs. Samsung trial. Both companies had a stake in this trial with Apple seeking $2.2 billion in infringements, and Samsung asking for $6 million. To the Apple arguments, Samsung said at most it owed $38 million. The verdict is currently being read and so far Samsung has been found to have violated at...