Supreme Court sides with Samsung, sends Apple patent fight back to lower courtSupreme Court opens the door for Samsung to further reduce the damages against it.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that a statute applied to manufactured products was applied too narrowly in the company's patent fight with Apple, leaving the door open to Samsung having the judgment against it reduced. While the company was originally ordered to pay $399 million to Apple, the court held that the damages could potentially be reduced because only certain components of the relevant devices might be infringing on Apple's patents, rather than the whole of each device.
From the ruling:
In the case of a multicomponent product, the relevant "article of manufacture" for arriving at a ยง289 damages award need not be the end product sold to the consumer but may be only a component of that product.
"Article of manufacture" is defined as something made by hand or machine, and can refer both to a product sold, as well as a component of that product. The Supreme Court did not ma...
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Supreme Court sides with Samsung, sends Apple patent fight back to lower court
