Last Friday, the final pleas of the companies' lawyers took place Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), si Samsung in the process that is meant to finally establish the compensations that the Koreans owe to the Americans. In just one week, the lawyers presented evidence, called witnesses, and the jury should announce the final decision for this trial today.
Apple and Samsung accuse each other of copying certain elements of their own phones, but the dispute dates back to 2012, when Apple won 1.05 billion dollars from Samsung in court. The Koreans paid half of the amount, but they contested the other half, and the current process aims to establish the final amount that should reach Apple.
Samsung vs Apple: The Jury's Decision in the New Trial is Expected today
Although the amount remaining to be paid from the 2012 decision is 500 million dollars, Apple is asking for 1 billion, and Samsung is willing to pay 28 million dollars. Apple says it wants compensation that totals almost a third of the 3.3 billion dollars won by Samsung by selling 8.6 million phones copied after the iPhone.
Apple wants compensation for the entire value of the phones, not just the copied components, Samsung wants to pay truncated, and the jury will decide what will happen in the end. Theoretically, the decision should be announced today, but since we are talking about a jury that must deliberate, it is not hard to believe that the decision will be left to wait.
