In the summer of 2012, an American jury awarded the company a win Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), in a lawsuit filed against those from Samsung, awarding him damages worth a little over 1 billion dollars. In light of this victory, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), requested that an American judge also impose the withdrawal from the market of the products for which it was decided that there were violations of his invention patents. Almost 2 years later, after appeals and appeals and analyses, today the judge is presiding over the case announced his decision which will remain definitive, granting the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), the sum of 930 million dollars as damages.
To award an injunction to Apple in these circumstances would ignore the Federal Circuit's warning that a patentee may not "leverage its patent for competitive gain beyond that which the inventive contribution and value of the patent warrant."
Unfortunately for the Apple company, the judge did not decide to withdraw the respective products from sale, even if they are currently not as popular as they were 3 years ago. Apple wanted to obtain this decision, mainly, to demonstrate the fact that any infringement of some patents has the effect of not only monetary sanctions, but the withdrawal of products from sale, but it seems that this will not happen, and this decision will probably affect other open processes between the two companies.
In the end, it is worth saying that the judge who presided over the case considers that the people who bought Samsung's products did not do so based on the infringed technologies to produce them, but surely Apple will never agree to this.
