During this week, a court in Japan gave a rather strange decision in a trial between Samsung si Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, both companies winning. Samsung used FRAND patents, standard essentials, to attack Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), in court, but the judge decided ca Samsung he had no right to use these patents in the process, they could be used by producers without paying licenses.
This decision came together with one by which it was admitted that Apple used in iPhone 4 FRAND technologies patented by Samsung and decided that Samsung can demand damages of 98.000 dollars based on this infringement, the amount being the reasonable amount that can be paid for licensing the technologies. In tandem with this decision, the court decided that despite Samsung's request to ban the sale of iPhone 4 terminals, the devices can continue to be sold, even if they violate the patents.
Moreover, Apple was not obliged in any way to pay compensation to Samsung in the amount established by the court, although theoretically it would have the right. This is the first decision of this kind given in a process that involves both companies and it is certainly one of the most controversial ever given, it practically having no clear finality.
