“Apple Inc has asked for a court order for a permanent U.S. sales ban on Samsung Electronics products alleged to have violated its patents along with additional damages of $707 million on top of the billion-dollar verdict won by the iPhone maker last month,” Miyoung Kim and Sung-won Shim report for Reuters.
“Samsung has responded by asking for a new trial,” Kim and Shim report. “Apple scored a legal victory over Samsung in late August when a U.S. jury found that the Korean firm had copied critical features of the iPhone and awarded the U.S. firm $1.05 billion in damages.”
Kim and Shim report, “In a motion filed late Friday U.S. time, Apple sought a further $400 million damage award for design infringement by Samsung; $135 million for willful infringement of its utility patents; $121 million in supplemental damages based on Samsung’s product sales not covered in the jury’s deliberation; and $50 million of prejudgment interest on damages through December 31. The requests together come to $707 million.”
‘Apple wants the injunction to cover “any of the infringing products or any other product with a feature or features not more than colorably different from any of the infringing feature or features in any of the Infringing Products,'” Kim and Shim report. ‘Such a wide-ranging sales ban could result in the extension of the injunction to cover Samsung’s brand-new Galaxy S III smartphone.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David E.” for the heads up.]
All opposed?? Please raise your hand.
I said, all opposed??
Anyone??
Go Apple Go!
If granted, it’ll be game, set, and match for Apple and it’ll be the biggest shout out for the tech industry to mind the IP rights of inventors.
wishful thinking. This is just the latest volley. On a side note… I’m beginning to thing that maybe a full 1/3 of south Koreans are ‘Kim’
You forgot the word “asian” before “tech industry”.
What a weird number . Applr pls just make 1 billion eh ..
After the verdict it’s no longer “alleged” violations.
I was thinking the same thing. There was a trial and Samsung was found guilty. The finding was overwhelming and absolute. An allegation is something that has not yet been proven and this is no longer an allegation. It implies a tilt by the author that ignores reality.
Samsung, “I should get a new trial because I didn’t like this outcome”.
Hahahahahaha
Yeah I only hope the post trial interviews with the jury foreman with patent experience don’t come back to haunt us and give Samsung any legal ground for a new trial. There have been other problems as discussed at the groklaw site too. How much of that has any legitimacy I don’t know.
Even if Apple is not granted the injunction, this type of thing creates uncertainty for Samsung’s internal planning, parts suppliers, app developers, accessories developers, retailers who sell smartphones, investors, etc.
In other words, it will negatively impact Samsung sales and everything related to them.
Maybe this will benefit Windows mobile as the alternative mobile OS to Samsungs Android.
I thought Apple was seeking triple the damages ($3 billion) for willful infringement. Is this on top of that or is this instead of that?
Legal grandstanding on both parts. This will amount to no more than a hill of beans for either party.
For now Apple needs to keep their eyes on the quality factor sans Samsung.
Friend with galaxy s3 comes to me, “share your playlist with me” my response “sorry I have an iPhone, and by the way, get your own damn music!!!!!!!!” I pay for my crap, pay for your own! Apple invents, Samsung wants it free so it copies.. Samsung needs to create products without copying. You got caught, pay the patent holder!!! Apple all the way baby!!
Apple took universal search off my s3…I am here because I was really excited about getting the new ipod touch… But after apples lawsuit against Samsung took away a simple but useful feature on my phone I don’t think I can buy another apple product… I’ve owned every apple product except for the iPhone and love them all…A DROID due to the lower price point was my first phone so I ended up just sticking with it because I new the os well.. I am really disappointed in Apple though…I don’t think they realize that there are plenty of people who own ipods and Macs who use droids
*knew
Go ahead. Get a Droid. Boycott Apple. Hold your breath till you turn blue.
Me, I’ll breathe easy and stick with Apple. Ahhhhh….
You hate Apple because Apple removed a feature off of your S3?
Perhaps you should be upset for stealing Apple’s patented feature in the first place. Also I might remind you Apple tried to get Samsung to license these features from them but Samsung declined. If you steal ip you will either look like a thief in the court of popular opinion and may also get sued in court and lose. That’s what happened. If you think you don’t like that missing feature just wait once they have to turn off the rest of the features the phone will be an even bigger piece of SamDung. You may not want to upgrade your phone at all as the updates are going to turn off all the stolen from Apple features real soon. If I know Apple and I do they will force SamDung and others to push the update out so you may not have a choice.
Oh happy day.
How about THIS for a deal… Apple won’t sell their iPhones in Korea…
Korea can’t sell their Smartphones in the US…
Bam… Done…
Wow so screw us apple user in Korea with your simpleton logic. Putz…
Both companies need to stop this childish BS and move on.
Wrong, what goes around, comes around. It took a while, but it finally came to Samsung. Oh well!