The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Samsung’s appeal to re-consider the $400 million damages that the Korean company owes to Apple for infringing its patents.
The case, which dates back to 2012, originally had a damage amount of $1 billion, but was later reduced to $548 million. Out of this, Samsung owes Apple about $400 million from their first trial.
Samsung had first asked the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the ruling back in July this year. Google, Facebook, and other tech giants had filed a ‘friend of the court’ briefing appealing against the decision and requesting the court to re-examine the case. The court, however, has refused to re-examine the case without providing any reason whatsoever. The only legal option left for Samsung now is to take this case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2012, a jury had ordered Samsung to pay $1.09 billion in damages for intentionally infringing on Apple patents across 23 of its products. The damage amount was later reduced to $900 million after the judge found that the jury had made some miscalculation. In June, the Appeals court had ruled that Samsung infringed on Apple’s design and utility patent but wasn’t in violation of “trade dress”, and therefore didn’t owe as much as previously awarded by courts. It then proceeded to reduce the damages from $932 million to $548 million.
[Via Mercury News]
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