Samsung is trying to avoid paying 120 million dollars for copying technologies and designs protected by patents by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, asking a US court to invalidate a 2014 ruling awarding profits in the Apple case.
Apple initially sued Samsung for 2.2 billion dollars in damages, but the jury decided that the amount should be only 120 million dollars, 98 million of this amount being awarded only for a single patent.
In the request made recently to an American court, Samsung's lawyers claim that in reality the company did not copy Apple's technology to transform phone numbers and various information into links that users could access by simply clicking on them.
Moreover, Samsung stated that two of the patents for which damages were awarded were invalidated by the American authorities, Apple contesting that decision, a final decision not yet being given for them.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd urged a US appeals court on Tuesday to find that a jury in 2014 should not have made the South Korean company pay nearly $120 million to Apple Inc for infringing three patents. The same appeals court in September ruled that Apple should have been awarded an injunction in the case, barring Samsung from selling devices that infringe its patents. The court, however, said Samsung could remove the patented features without recalling its products.
The interesting part is that the same court ruled in September that Samsung products that infringe these patents should be removed from sale if their functions are not modified, but we are talking about terminals that were no longer sold or were no longer popular.
Who will win the case in this process remains to be seen, but those from Apple have a very long way to go to receive their compensation from Samsung.
