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Court orders Samsung to pay $539m to Apple

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Court orders Samsung to pay $539m to Apple

A US jury has decided Samsung must pay Apple $539 million (£403 million) in damages for copying features of the iPhone.

Apple claimed Samsung would not have emerged as the world’s leading seller of smartphones if it had not ripped off the technology powering the pioneering iPhone in developing a line of similar devices running on Google’s Android software.

Previous rulings had already determined that Samsung infringed on some of Apple’s patents, but the amount of damages owed has been hanging in legal limbo.

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Another jury convened for a 2012 trial had determined Samsung should pay Apple 1.05 billion dollars, but US District Judge Lucy Koh reduced that amount to 548 million dollars (£409 million).

The issue escalated to the US Supreme Court, which determined in 2016 that a lower court needed to re-examine 399 million dollars (£298 million) of the 548 million dollars.

That ruling was based on the concept that the damages should not be based on all the profits that the South Korean electronics giant rung up from products that copied the iPhone because its infringement may only have violated a few patents.

 

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