Apple details $2.2 billion damages claim against Samsung<article>
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Apple began to lay out its $2.2 billion damages claim against Samsung Electronics for the first time on Tuesday, arguing to an eight-person jury in California that Samsung’s alleged patent infringement was large and significantly damaged Apple.</p><p>
Apple is demanding the money for lost sales and royalties it says it suffered as a result of Samsung’s sale of more than 37 million smartphones and tablets between August 2011 and the end of 2013, the company told the court.</p><p>
The trial, which began last week, involves five Apple patents and 10 Samsung products: nine models of smartphones and one tablet.</p><p>
The patents are the “slide-to-unlock” function that takes the phone from the lock screen to home screen; universal search, which pulls in results from the phone and the Internet; the ability to sync data in the background; automatic word correction as a user types; and contextual links that attach a menu to items such as phone numbers, email addresses and postal addresses.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2141520/apple-details-22b-damages-claim-against-samsung.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Apple details $2.2 billion damages claim against Samsung
