Apple and Samsung’s "Century suit" patent case has once again reached the front page of major media. This patent war that began in 2012, after many lawsuits and court rulings of both parties, finally reached the end of the official stage six years later. According to foreign media CNET reports , after a week of colluding discussion , the U.S. federal jurors made a ruling in federal court on Thursday that Samsung Electronics infringed Apple's iPhone product design and other technology patents in 2012. As a compensation, Samsung needs to pay Apple a patent fee of US$539 million.
This patent war between Apple and Samsung will be used to the title of “Century Lawsuit” because the lawsuit has been played for several years and involves several high courts in various countries and two companies. A variety of products.
In 2012, Apple believed that Samsung’s new Galaxy S was similar in design to the iPhone 4 and was rejected by Samsung after it submitted a patent licensing offer (Apple’s offer price is US$30/cell, US$40/tablet, and Samsung’s Agreeing to cross-licensing, Apple is willing to give Samsung a 20% discount. Apple filed a lawsuit with Samsung in the Federal District Court in San Jose, California, requesting that Samsung Electronics be confronted with a number of patent issues such as product design and system icons. In the 2012 prosecution, Apple believed that Samsung had not adopted a similar design before the iPhone was released. However, after Apple released the iPhone, Samsung adopted similar appearance and system icons. In addition, in addition to the iPhone, Apple also pointed out that the Samsung Galaxy Tab and system animation effects all infringe Apple’s many patents, including trademark and 16 patents (slide unlock, spell correction, multi-touch, icon elastic effect, click Zoom, etc.)
Although at this time Samsung also filed a counter-claim against Apple in the United States and other countries, the Federal Court finally ruled that Samsung infringed Apple’s patent rights and asked Samsung to compensate Apple with a US$1.05 billion infringement fee (Apple’s compensation in the indictment is 2.75 billion U.S. dollars, while Apple did not infringe on the related patents filed by Samsung Electronics in the anti-litigation. In the same year, Samsung withdrew its lawsuit against Apple in the European multinational court.
After the decision of the San Jose Federal Court came up, Apple filed an out of court settlement with Samsung, but the negotiations eventually ended in failure. In the face of $1 billion in reparations, Samsung stated in its official statement that "This should not be a victory for Apple but a loss to US consumers." Apple believes Samsung's "stealing" behavior is wrong. .
In 2012, Samsung appealed to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on the San Jose Federal Court's decision. As a result, the Federal Circuit held that the decision of the San Jose Federal Court would potentially allow Apple to monopolize the market through patents. As a result, the Circuit Court dismissed the San Jose Federal Court's decision and requested a commutation. Eventually there was a breakthrough in the 2014 patent case, but Samsung still had to pay Apple about US$548 million in infringement fees.
After this verdict, Samsung agreed to pay 548 million U.S. dollars in compensation and paid 399 million U.S. dollars in compensation. In 2016, Samsung still considered the federal court's ruling penalties as too high and appealed the verdict to the Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court rejected Samsung's appeal.
It is worth mentioning that before Samsung appealed to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration had expressed the hope that the Supreme Court would not accept Samsung's appeal .
In this month's trial, Apple believes that the product's design patent covers the entire iPhone's design, and Samsung should compensate the entire product and hand over all the profits made by using the infringing mobile phone. Samsung, on the other hand, believes that these patents cover only parts of the phone, not the entire phone. Therefore, Samsung hopes that compensation will be paid only for the profits of some parts and components.
Eventually, after a four-day jury round, the federal court ruled that Samsung still had to pay Apple a total of $539 million in infringement fines ($533 million for infringement of Apple’s Samsung patents and $5.32 million for two functional patents). At this point, the "Century Lawsuit" case finally had results.
After the verdict, Apple stated in an official statement, “Samsung's blatant copying of our designs is a fact. We are very grateful to the jury for its efforts and are glad they agree that Samsung pays for copying our products.” Some scholars believe that Samsung Will continue to appeal to the court.
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