Supreme court decides in favor of Samsung in dispute with Apple – The New Dia.com

WASHINGTON - The judges of the Supreme Court of the united States failed on Tuesday unanimously in favour of Samsung in its dispute over patents with Apple on the design of the iPhone.

The court held that you cannot force Samsung to pay the proceeds of the 11 models of phones because the features in dispute are just a small part of the artifacts.

According to the previous statement, Samsung had to pay Apple to 399 million dollars for copying parts of the patented design of the iPhone. The case returns to a lower court to decide how much you should pay for Samsung.

The case is part of a series of disputes between rival technology that started in 2011. Apple accused Samsung of duplicate features which are characteristic of the iPhone that are patented: the flat screen, the rectangular shape with rounded corners and the arrangement of the icons on the screen.

it Remains to determine how much you should pay for Samsung to compensate Apple under a law of 1887 that forces violators of patents to pay the “total profit”. Apple says that this means all of the proceeds from the sale of phones, while Samsung argues that it is restricted to earnings relating to the specific components that you copied.

judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the ruling in the name of the court that the law is not required to pay damages based on the product in full but you may be limited to a component of the product. The ruling overturned a judgment of a court of appeals in Washington, according to which Apple was entitled to all the benefits.

however, the supreme court refused to establish a specific test for the way in which they should be calculated such damages. Sotomayor said that it was not necessary, so the judges had to delegate the issue to the lower courts to resolve.

Samsung had argued that the compensation it had to pay downplayed the fact that their phones contain more than 200,000 other patents that Apple owns. Apple said the verdict was fair because the success of the iPhone was directly linked to its distinctive appearance.