Samsung moves to take Apple clash to SCOTUS
Samsung is gearing up to brawl again with Apple at the US Supreme Court.
This time, it’s the Apple v Samsung lawsuit that went to trial in 2014 at the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
The district court ruled that Samsung’s smartphone devices infringed US patent number 8,074,172, and a jury found it had infringed two US patents: 5,946,647 and 8,046,721.
Samsung was ordered to pay $119.6 million in damages and then appealed.
In February last year, a panel at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the district court decision.
Apple filed a petition for rehearing en banc.
The Federal Circuit, in an 8-3 majority decision in October last year, overturned the panel’s decision and reinstated Apple’s $119.6 million verdict.
But Samsung has not given up hope, it seems.
On February 17, the South Korean company applied for more time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari in its patent clash with Apple.
Then, on Tuesday, February 21, the Supreme Court granted the application, extending the filing time to March 29, 2017.
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