90 days after Apple secured an enormous court win over compete with Samsung, the United Claims Supreme Court has got in and reversed the previous ruling, throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and sending the truth back to a lower court.
The Supreme Court's ruling on Tuesday is a new chapter in the five-year-old battle between the two companies. This specific round related to $399 million Samsung korea was ordered to pay Apple for copying the iPhone's rounded edges, toned screen, and the way in which software are set up.
Samsung didn't dispute that it copied Apple's design nonetheless they did argue that the jury focused too much on the general design of their phones when creating the decision as compared to just those specific elements.
Samsung also asserted that the dollar value of the fine, which, under the Design Particular Act of 1887, was going to be the total profit from sales of devices that used the patented bits (or, in Samsung's case, several of its phones) was unfairly high.
Apple quarreled the overall type of it is phones was everything and, thus, the ruling was completely fair (which one would expect from a business selling a $300 reserve about the history of its products' designs).
The Court ruled unanimously 8-0 for Samsung. In her decision (which you can read in full below), Justice Sonia Sotomayor concentrates on the phrase "design[s] for an article of manufacture" from the 130-year-old act being used here. Sotomayor says the term is broad enough that it could indicate either the complete phone or maybe the individual components.
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