Supreme Court: Lower Court Should Reconsider What Samsung Owes Apple
December 06 2016 - 11:11AM
Dow Jones News
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled a lower court
should reconsider how much money Samsung Electronics Co. owes rival
Apple Inc. for infringing patents on the iPhone's design.
Samsung has been challenging a $399 million award to Apple after
jurors in 2012 found that 11 smartphone models from the South
Korean electronics giant infringed Apple's design patents.
The high court agreed to hear the case to clarify how courts
should compute monetary damages for design-patent infringement.
Apple argued it was entitled to the total profits on Samsung's
infringing products. Samsung argued that it shouldn't have to hand
over all of its profits on the phones because the design was only
one component of those complex devices.
The Supreme Court said an appeals court used the wrong analysis
when it ruled for Apple.
The justices sent the case back for more lower court
proceedings.
Write to Brent Kendall at brent.kendall@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 06, 2016 10:56 ET (15:56 GMT)
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