According to the results of a review by Judge Gaoy Hui (Lucy Koh) of San Jose, California and jurors, Samsung Electronics infringed on Apple’s three design patents and two utility patents. Apple’s attorney representative Bill Lee stated that the jury’s The only job is to figure out how much damage these patent infringement brings to Apple and how much compensation Samsung Electronics needs to compensate for these losses.
Here, the core question is how much money should be paid. In other words, should Samsung Electronics compensate the entire mobile phone, or just compensate the infringing parts? It is clear that Samsung Electronics is in favor of the second compensation plan and wants The amount of compensation will be controlled within 28 million US dollars.
On Tuesday, Bill Lee said to the jury: 'The infringement lawsuit between the two companies will continue for quite some time.' He believes that the jury should focus back on 2006, those that will appear before the iPhone Flip phones, slider phones and other similar phones are also included in the investigation.
In addition, he also stated that Samsung Electronics obtained US$3.3 billion in revenue and US$1 billion in profits from Apple’s design patents. The number of smartphones sold has reached millions. Moreover, this is only the design of patent data. The profits that Samsung Electronics infringed on Apple’s utility patents were not counted.
As early as the 2012 trial, Samsung Electronics was awarded a compensation of US$1.05 billion to Apple. Subsequently, in a review in 2013, the amount was reduced. After Samsung Electronics agreed to compensate for some of the losses, This case was handed over to the Supreme Court of the United States in 2016. The final result of the court hearing was Gao Lanhui’s case. Samsung Electronics paid Apple’s compensation of US$399 million.
In response, the representative of Samsung Electronics Lawyers John Quinn stressed that no matter how much compensation needs to be paid to Apple, the judgment criteria should be based on the profits generated by the infringing parts, not the profits brought by the mobile phone as a whole.
Apple insisted that Samsung Electronics should make compensation based on the overall profits from mobile phones. However, according to Samsung Electronics, Apple’s patents did not cover the entire mobile phone.