During the last evening the jury of the American trial between Samsung si Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), set the final amount which is to be awarded as damages to the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), for the infringements of his invention patents. In the base the documentation provided following the completion of the process, a single patent was the basis for awarding 85% of the total amount awarded as damages. The patent in question describes a technology called Data Tapping, allowing the operating system to recognize certain texts as links and allow the user to interact with them.
In practice, we are talking about the transformation of phone numbers, urls, addresses or even some words into links that, as soon as they are pressed, allow us to interact with them through certain applications. Based on this technology, 102 million dollars were awarded as compensation, and if we look at the terminals for which the most money was awarded, we notice that Samsung Galaxy S II, Samsung Galaxy S III and all their variants were penalized with the highest amounts.
