Samsung Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court in Last Effort to Avoid $548 Million Apple Payment

[The Barron]

Pay up, Sammy!

You LOST again, now be off & keep licking your wounds.

Steal & copy from another company for a change!

 

[FightTheFuture]

oh wait so now force touch is patented by Apple?? oh you crack me up

Is 3D touch patented by any other manufacturers? Meanwhile the guy who commented right above you is convinced that Samsung invented larger screened phones.

 

[gnasher729]

At what point are they just paying more in lawyer costs than to just pay the reduced sum? When it was in the billions it was something to holler about, but now I feel like they are paying just about that much in lawyer fees.

500 million dollars would pay for an awful lot of lawyers.

Is 3D touch patented by any other manufacturers? Meanwhile the guy who commented right above you is convinced that Samsung invented larger screened phones.

Screen size is purely fashion. Apple is right now selling a 12" iPad. Any reason to believe that Apple couldn't build a phone with a 12" screen if there were people to buy it?

 

[logicstudiouser]

It is a ridiculous payout and I am not even a samsung user.

 

[Matouš]

Samsung never copied any Apple product. They just accidentaly did the same year after Apple.

 

[igorsky]

Yep ever since apple copied Samsung's screen sizes.

Please stop spreading the lie that Samsung was the first company to produce large-screen phones. HTC did it before them, and the original iPhone did it before HTC.

 

[mcarling]

The Supreme Court should reinstate the original $1B award.

 

[tshrimp]

Pay up, Sammy!

You LOST again, now be off & keep licking your wounds.

Steal & copy from another company for a change!

Apple is not above this:
Like the HTC antenna design on the iPhone 6
Finger Print ID
Voice (Sorry, but Siri wasn't first)
Motion Wallpaper

On the Mac side...If you are going to steal the split screen...at least make it good. I am still using a downloaded app to do this on my Mac as El Capitan version stinks.

There may be more, but this was off the top of my head.

I feel kind of dirty backing Samsung and Microsoft. Someone throw me some soap.

 

[sentiblue]

oh wait so now force touch is patented by Apple?? oh you crack me up

There's nothing to crack about it h ere... ForceTouch is in fact patented by Apple...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...50&s1=8988384.PN.&OS=PN/8988384&RS=PN/8988384

 

[0007776]

Please stop spreading the lie that Samsung was the first company to produce large-screen phones. HTC did it before them, and the original iPhone did it before HTC.

The original iPhone was 3.5", Android manufacturers, Samsung among them were the ones that started having screens above 4" which Apple then decided to copy. That's not a bad thing, but they still followed where everyone else was going on screen size. And all the manufacturers draw on each other's ideas when they come up with new designs.

 

[CPx]

Go home Samsung you're drunk.

 

[tshrimp]

The original iPhone was 3.5", Android manufacturers, Samsung among them were the ones that started having screens above 4" which Apple then decided to copy. That's not a bad thing, but they still followed where everyone else was going on screen size. And all the manufacturers draw on each other's ideas when they come up with new designs.

Now if they would just start using NFC a little more/better. I am all for them doing a copy of that. I don't have the iPhone 6 yet (daughter does), but is Apple still only allowing that for Apple Pay. Touching a speaker with the phone and having it sync and play is very convenient, not to mention cool.

 

[0007776]

Now if they would just start using NFC a little more/better. I am all for them doing a copy of that.

It would be good if Apple would copy them in those areas. But this would be an example of how the patent system discourages innovation as companies are limited in what they can get away with copying.

 

[bluespark]

It's as much copying as having a rectangular phone with a touch screen covering the entire front was samsung copying apple.

You might want to actually read the court papers. Your view of these cases is just a bit removed from what they are about.

 

[gijoeinla]

Their next phone is rumored to have Force Touch! Samsung, you crack me up!

Same-song

 

[nepalisherpa]

oh wait so now force touch is patented by Apple?? oh you crack me up

I never mentioned that they are infringing the patent. I just said they seem to copy feature as soon as Apple introduces them. You crack me up with your assumptions.

 

[dannyyankou]

There's nothing to crack about it h ere... ForceTouch is in fact patented by Apple...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8988384.PN.&OS=PN/8988384&RS=PN/8988384

And filed in 2011. Will you look at that.

 

[Junipr]

Yep ever since apple copied Samsung's screen sizes. Every company steals from each other...

Come on, let's be honest guys

 

[tooltalk]

I thought they agreed to this recently...?

@penajmz : usually, once you pay, you can't get it back. Not sure how this is going to fly.

 

[tooltalk]

This case has dragged on long enough.

They wrapped up non-US lawsuits early this year. The US lawsuits are going to last much longer.

 

[tooltalk]

You can try Samsung. You know you will fail.

Next!

@soupcan : Well, Samsung has a very legitimate case, widely supported by many US companies, not just the tech industry, and legal community/academia.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

This is the last court you want to appeal to for favor against an American Icon in Industry.

 

[tooltalk]

Not a lawyer so I'm not sure if it's possible but would be very hilarious if the Supreme Court ended up increasing how much Samsung had to pay.

No, that's simply impossible and that's not what either parties are arguing here.

 

[gco212]

I never mentioned that they are infringing the patent. I just said they seem to copy feature as soon as Apple introduces them. You crack me up with your assumptions.

I guess it's really Apple following Huawei then, though. They beat Apple to Force Touch.

 

[tooltalk]

The truth is that the patent law is a mess and needs fixing. The truth is that this is not the case the the supreme court will use to fix things.

Write the check and move on. I hear a fat lady warming up.

It's a good thing the US Supreme court doesn't have anything more important to consider.

They might want to ask them to pre-emtively rule on the upcoming lawsuit for Samsung's force touch while they're at it.

This is fairly an important case that has wide support of many US industries and legal community/academia -- nobody but Apple believes that their entire profit should be disgorged without any apportionment because of a small design infringement in multicomponent products. But Apple is also politically well connected, so we will see.