In 2012, an American jury ruled that Samsung infringed Apple's patents and copied the design of some iPhones when it developed its own products, forcing the Koreans to pay just over $1 billion in damages.
Challenging that initial decision, Samsung obtained a reduction in the amount set as damages, with $100 million removed from it, leaving a total of $930 million to be paid. Samsung appealed and against this decision to pay compensation, and today the trial of the appeal filed by the Korean company against this amount established sometime last year begins in a US court.
An appeals court is due Thursday to hear arguments from both sides in Samsung's appeal of the verdict from the first Apple-Samsung case — the one that ended in 2013 with Apple being awarded $930 million in damages from two juries. Samsung argues that much, if not all, of that amount should be thrown out, saying the verdict was excessive and unwarranted.
Samsung is trying to escape the payment of 930 million dollars to Apple
Samsung claims that the majority of the amount established as compensation is excessive and without merit, accusing the Apple company of a lack of innovation for the development of the designs used in its own iPhone terminals. Those from Samsung formulated a complex brief with the help of 27 law professors, so we are talking about a lot of material to be studied by Apple's lawyers, but also by the judge who will preside over the trial and make the final decision for him.
The Apple company claims that Samsung is trying in this appeal to submit a series of facts that were already judged in the initial trial to trial again, instead of coming up with new evidence and arguments that would justify accepting the appeal. Apple has created a series of its own briefs with the help of experts and supporters of the protection of intellectual rights, but it remains for the company to decide who is right and who is wrong in this extremely complex situation.
