U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Samsung's Appeal of $548 Million Settlement Paid to Apple

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I honestly have no idea how all this work. But for the lawyers on the forum, when will this ACTUALLY END?? When do you get to a point where you actually have to pay something?

Once the Supreme Court rules it is usually over. I think there is a possibility that they could say the lower court needs to make some changes to how it determined damages, but it won't last much longer.

 

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Again?

Haven't they spent more than $548 million on the lawyers in the meantime?

not sure about the first case which is now going to get heard by the SCOTUS, but Apple lost the second case completely and will have to pay Samsung lawyer's bills. Apple shouldn't have started a case they couldn't win, especially when it was fairly obvious Apple's patents were weak.
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Dear Samsung:
Give it up already. You lost.

in case you haven't been keeping up with the trials, Apple lost ALL patents claims against Samsung in Germany. Apple was ordered to publicly apologize to Samsung and pay for Samsung lawyer's expenses after Apple defied the court order. Apple lost the second case they started and now has to pay for Samsung's legal fee.
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Wouldn't blame them.

Of all the court cases they fought the only time Apple won was in the US (what's Apple's home territory again?).
And they needed the help of the president to get that done.

I feel for Samsung. Quite an injustice.

Well, there were two separate cases in the US. Samsung won the USITC case, but Obama reversed that ruling that would have banned Apple iPhones in the US.

Apple won the highly publicized district case, but the appeals court reversed "trade dress" part of the win. The design part of the victory is now going to be heard by the SCOTUS.
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This was an unexpected development. I figured the Supreme Court had something better to do than this.

why unexpected? The SCOTUS hears patents cases all the time or at least they hear more patent cases every year.


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This is ridiculous. You'd think Samsung would stop copying though if they didn't want to pay out but looking at their most recent offerings, they keep on with their blatant plagiarism, albeit in a cheap way.

Sure, Samsung copies (or inspired by) Apple, but Samsung is no more legally liable than Apple being liable for copying Xerox's ideas (or Samsung's).
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We may all think so, but the Supreme Court will probably rule in favor of Samsung. To the US justice system, Apple is like a rotten Apple.

What's at issue here is Apple's use of an esoteric design patent law never applied to design cases involving multicomponent devices . There are at least 30+ law school professors and many US tech/non-tech companies who are very interested in the outcome of the case and don't want Apple's victory to stand.