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Samsung, Apple Patent Wars Elevates to Supreme Court

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By Tahnee Gonzales , Parent Herald

Mobile device industry giants Samsung and Apple will take design disputes to U.S. Supreme Court this week, ending the five-year long battle involving patent infringement suits between Apple and Samsung. The conclusion of this case will ultimately decide the Apple's course of action on Samsung for supposed creative idea pocketing. The justices will hear both Samsung and Apple's arguments on whether or not Apple should be awarded with all of Samsung's profits on the latest Samsung smartphone design.

A 2012 case ruled that Samsung indeed mimicked Apple's bezel, black rectangle shape and rounded corners, and graphical layout of icons. Apple insists that Samsung pays the total of the profits, arguing that those features are what made Samsung's gadgets sell.
The jury determined that Samsung should pay $1.09 billion in damages, but South Korea's District Court Judge Lucy Koh dipped Apple's damage compensation $450.5 million, so Samsung only had to shell out $548 million.Earlier this year, Samsung successfully appealed for it not to award $120 million in another patent infringement lawsuit.
The court ruled that Samsung did not violate Apple's patents on Samsung phone's slide-to-lock feature and on turning alphanumeric characters into links. It also invalidated those two intellectual properties, calling those undeserving to be called patents.

Agreeing with the court ruling, Electronic Education Frontier Staff Attorney Vera Ranieri stated that "the patent system is supposed to offer fair reward for inventors, not excessive, unfair compensation that threatens our access to technology." The advocacy group also urged the justice system to throw out the $399 million damage that must be awarded to Samsung.

However, the $199 million damage compensation ruling was reinstated last Friday. In a CS Monitor interview with the University of Richmond School of Law professor James Gibson found the latest development on Samsung-Apple dispute to be agreeable. James Gibson points out that Apple sets a precedent for those need protection for their patents.

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