Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), won a few years ago the right to receive compensation from the company Samsung for infringing some patents that protect the design of iPhone terminals, over 1 billion dollars being awarded to those from Cupertino.
Although Samsung lost the case, the company used all possible legal means to challenge the decision made by an American jury and managed to reduce the total amount of damages by more than 200 million dollars, but continues to try to reduce it further.
In this idea, Samsung asked a court to reduce part of the compensation, more precisely the second part of the amount awarded by the jurors, and the process to determine this amount will not be completed in 2015, but only in 2016, a judge establishing the first court session today.
In March 2016, the court is going to open the hearing in the process where the pleas of the lawyers will be heard and the evidence prepared by them will be discussed, various witnesses will also be called to testify in favor of one or the other of the parties .
The process is based on the recalculation of the amount that Samsung must pay Apple, and the judge wants a quick retrial of the case, also preventing the filing of new motions to support the claims of each party, so everything will be judged on the basis of the existing evidence.
