During this year the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), won a lawsuit filed Samsung along with $119 million in damages, all based on a patent for the system self-correction of words. Although the patent was the basis of the entire amount, the US Patent and Trademark Office canceled part of the protection for certain technologies protected by him in the past, so the final amount to be paid by Samsung could be reduced.
Practically Samsung was found guilty of infringing technologies that are no longer protected by the respective patent starting today. Although Samsung failed to convince a court of the fact that that patent must be canceled, the office for patents and trademarks was somewhat easier to convince and won the cause of the Koreans.
Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), asked for 2 billion dollars as damages for violations, received 119 million dollars, but in the end it seems that the amount could be reduced to a much lower value, or even canceled.
