Court breathes new life into Apple's attempt to get Samsung products banned in US

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By Associated Press | Updated: 19 November 2013 16:04 IST
A Silicon Valley jury is set Tuesday to begin deciding behind closed doors how much Samsung Electronics owes Apple for copying key features of the iPhone and iPad.

Apple is demanding $380 million. Samsung counters that it only owes $52 million for using features such as "pinch-to-zoom" in 13 older-generation products. The jury is expected to begin deliberations Tuesday after lawyers deliver their closing arguments and the judge reads instructions.

(Also see: Samsung says it owes Apple $52 million for patents, not $380 million)

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The one-week trial was held to determine only damages.

An earlier jury found Samsung had infringed Apple's patents in making and selling 26 products and awarded Apple $1.05 billion. But U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled that the jury miscalculated damages for 13 products. The two companies have each won and lost legal skirmishes over the past couple of years, and analysts predict continued litigation for months to come.

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(Also see: Samsung's $1 billion penalty in Apple case slashed in half)

The current proceedings are somewhat of a warm-up for a much larger trial scheduled for March. That's when Apple's claims that Samsung's newer and current products are also copying the iPhone and iPad will be considered by a jury.

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Apple's attempts to ban the South Korean firm from selling some of the devices in question got a leg up on Monday. The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington,D.C., ordered Koh to reconsider Apple's demands that some of the products a jury found infringed Apple's patents be barred for sale in the United States. Koh in December turned down Apple, ruling that the company didn't prove that consumers bought Samsung devices instead of Apple devices because of the infringement.

The appeals court told Koh to apply a different legal standard that favors Apple's arguments. The ruling could come into play next year if Apple prevails at trial and seeks another sales ban on the newer products.

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The two companies are locked in legal battles around the globe for supremacy in the more than $300 billion smartphone market.

 

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