According to foreign media reports, Apple and Samsung have been reopening trials on design patent infringement lawsuits that have been filed for several years on May 14 to determine Samsung’s infringement of Apple’s three patents. The respective witness lists were submitted today.
It is reported that Samsung will appoint Justin Dension, senior vice president of mobile product strategy and marketing, Drew Blackard, senior director of product marketing, and Jinsoon Kim, vice president of Samsung Corporate Design Center to testify.
On the Apple side, chief executive Tim Cook and design director Jony Ive will not appear in court, but the company will assign Chad Howard, senior manager of the design team. Richard Howarth) and Greg Joswiak, vice president of product marketing, testified during the retrial. Among them, Haworth will discuss the design process of Apple in court, infringe design patent infringement and design-related issues. Other topics; and Joswick will discuss Apple's product marketing approach and the competitive nature of the smartphone market.
In addition, Apple also intends to appoint Susan Kare to testify. She designed many early icons for Macintosh computers. She will discuss the icon and graphical user interface design in court. Apple's other witnesses also include computers. Ravin Balakrishnan, a science expert, Alan Ball, an industrial design expert, Julie Davis, an advisor for loss analysis, and Karan Sin, a computer science professor Karan Singh.
In fact, the patent litigation between Apple and Samsung has to be traced back to 2011. In 2011, Apple sued the California court for plagiarizing Apple products on Samsung mobile phones; in 2012, the court ruled that Samsung infringed a number of patents and commercial appearances. , Awarded US$1.05 billion; In 2013, another court ruled that Samsung’s compensation amount was recalculated to US$930 million, and Samsung appealed again; In 2015, the court reduced the compensation to US$548 million, of which US$399 million was used for compensation design. Loss caused by patent infringement. Samsung argued at the time that the company was required to pay a 'disproportionate' amount of design infringement damages and appealed to the Supreme Court to reduce the amount of compensation.
Now, Samsung’s appeal has been successful. The Supreme Court ordered the US Court of Appeal to re-arbitrate Samsung’s compensation amount due to design patent infringement. The US Court of Appeal returned the case to the District Court, which decided to reopen on May 14 this year. At trial.
2. Samsung’s new patent tells you: AR expressions can also be used for video calls in the future;
In the micro web news, when Samsung released the Galaxy S9, it launched AR Emoji to compete with Apple's Animoji. However, at present, AR Emoji can only send pictures or GIFs, and it cannot be used in video.
However, the latest patent released by Samsung recently shows that the company is currently developing a brand new video chat function, using AR expressions to build 3D facial models and dialogue with friends in the video, without taking up the bandwidth needed to actually transmit live video.
3. The European Court of Justice hears Apple's $15.3 billion in tax appeals in the second half of the year;
Sina Technology News Beijing time on April 24 evening news, Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe (Paschal Donohoe) today said that the European Court of Justice is expected to hear Apple (hereinafter referred to as 'Apple') 15.3 billion US dollars this fall Taxes appeal case.
The European Commission ruled in August 2016 that Apple illegally evaded $15.3 billion in Ireland. Apple must return this portion of the tax to the Irish government.
Regarding the ruling, both the Irish government and Apple Inc. expressed their dissatisfaction that the preferential tax treatment enjoyed by Apple meets Irish and European Union laws. To this end, the Irish government and Apple subsequently appealed the EU ruling.
Although the appeal has been filed, the Irish government and Apple have also had to temporarily implement the EU ruling. The Irish government began accepting taxes paid by Apple this year.
In response, the Irish government has stressed that they are only passively receiving this tax on a temporary basis, and there is still a feeling of resistance. Donohue said: 'Apple enjoys a tax policy that applies to all businesses and is not tailor-made for Apple. Therefore, they did not violate EU or Irish law.
As the Irish government failed to recover the US$15.3 billion in taxes that Apple needed to pay, the European Commission also sued the Irish government’s Supreme Court 'European Court' in October last year. (Li Ming) Sina Technology
4. Build a third-party account Apple will start paying Ireland a tax rebate of €13 billion;
Sina Technology News Beijing time on April 25 early morning news, Apple will start this year in May to pay the Irish government to pay 13 billion euros of delinquent taxes. 19 months ago, the European Commission ruled that Apple illegally obtained from the Irish government up to Twenty years of tax assistance, using a tax mechanism that does not exist in other EU countries.
When Apple and the Irish government appealed to the Supreme Court of Europe’s decision on the EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, Apple and the Irish government reached an agreement to agree to the tax Refunds are first deposited with a third party.
Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said: 'Today is a very, very important day for solving this problem.' Donohuo told reporters that he will sign a legal agreement with Apple. Agreed to set up a third-party account to keep this tax refund. He said that this refund will be paid by the end of September this year.
Pascal said: 'This is the highest amount of money involved in such tax refunds. Due to the complexity of the incident, we must also comply with EU regulations, so it will take a while to resolve them.'
After Apple announced its decision in August 2016 that it had not paid the tax refund, the European Commission sued the Irish government in court last October, forcing it to request a tax refund from Apple. Donohue said that he had Margaret, Commissioner of the European Competition Commission, spoke with Apple about the agreement reached. (Xiaobao) Sina Technology