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Title: Appeals court rules Samsung won't have to pay $930 million in Apple patent case Post by: HCK on May 19, 2015, 09:00:12 am Appeals court rules Samsung won't have to pay $930 million in Apple patent case
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Samsung will not have to pay all of the $930 million in damages that Apple was awarded in 2012, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday.</p><p> The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., agreed with a California federal jury that Samsung violated Apple design and utility patents related to the iPhone. However, the appeals court reversed (http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/14-1335.Opinion.5-14-2015.1.PDF) the jury’s finding that Samsung infringed on Apple’s trade dress, or the overall look and packaging of a product.</p><p> Thus, the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, where the case was originally tried, must recalculate the portion of the settlement dealing with trade dress.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2923652/appeals-court-rules-samsung-wont-have-to-pay-930m-in-apple-patent-case.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Appeals court rules Samsung won't have to pay $930 million in Apple patent case (http://www.macworld.com/article/2923652/appeals-court-rules-samsung-wont-have-to-pay-930m-in-apple-patent-case.html#tk.rss_all) |