As a last-ditch effort to win a favorable ruling in the long-running lawsuit it lost to Apple in 2012, in which it was ordered to pay $1 billion in damages and has already paid $500 million, Samsung asked the Supreme Court of Justice to send the case for retrial to an American court.
Those from Samsung requested the cancellation of the patents on the basis of which Apple won the trial in 2012 and already received over half a billion dollars, those from Cupertino instead asked the US Supreme Court of Justice to ignore Samsung's request and not to send the case for retrial.
Apple claims that Samsung does not have evidence on the basis of which a decision should be made in accordance with its request, but also that there are no reasons to reduce the amount awarded as compensation, those from Cupertino managing to convince a panel of jurors to award the compensation in relative to the total price of a smartphone and not a partial one, as Samsung demands.
Samsung, on the other hand, claims that the damages established are excessive and that it did not copy the iPhone design, the Koreans stating that the patents for which the infringement was granted covered only a component of the mobile terminal and not the entire device, so it should not be grant compensation for the full price of the product.
In its legal brief on Friday, Apple said Samsung had not provided evidence to support its argument that design patent damages should be decided on one component of a smartphone, rather than the entire product. Apple said there was no need for the Supreme Court to send the case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
No one knows what decision the Supreme Court of Justice might make in the coming months, but if it agrees with Samsung, then we will witness several more months of legal disputes between Apple and the Koreans.
