A few Facts Raw Smash Apple-Samsung

Thursday, November 21, 2013 , the jury in a U.S. court to reward a fine of 290 million U.S. dollars, or approximately Rp 3.4 trillion to Samsung as it is considered cheating Apple patents , opponents magnitude in the mobile business .

Fines was not the first time Samsung is received . The Korean company has been sentenced to a fine of 640 million U.S. dollars in the previous trial .

Patent dispute the two companies has been going on two years since 2011. Much has happened during that time . Well , to summarize , here are some important facts from the Apple - Samsung legal battle , as reported by the Associated Press .

The root of the issue

In 2011 , Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung in court San Jose , United States . Basic charge, called Samsung violated Apple's patents with cheating technology to be applied in their own products .

Then Apple and Samsung went to court headed by judge Lucy Koh . In 2012 , Samsung was found guilty and had to pay a fine of 1.05 billion U.S. dollars . In March 2013 , Koh revise its decision because the judge the jury miscalculated the losses suffered by Apple .

Finally it was decided that Samsung must pay a fine of 640 million U.S. dollars . Coupled with fine which was decided on Thursday , then the Samsung as a whole had to pay 929.8 million dollars .

patent problematic

Broadly speaking , there are five kinds of Apple's patents at issue . Three of them concerns the gadget features , namely the on-screen navigation , pinch - to-zoom , and bounce back effect . Two other types of patents related to the iPhone design and icon in the interface .

unauthorized

Samsung argues that a number of patent infringement alleged Apple was not valid , and that the patent is valid not infringed . Patent and Trademark Office of the United States questioned the validity of the patent claims pinch- to-zoom of Apple . Wednesday ( 11/20/2013 ) , Apple asked to submit evidence to support its claim to these patents .

The following steps

Following the court decision last Thursday , Samsung plans to submit post - trial arguments to the judge to ask him to cancel the decision of the jury . If that fails , Samsung will appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal District in Washington DC .

Previously Samsung had never filed an appeal against the first verdict in the appeals court . If it fails again , Samsung is expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.

global war

Two scuffled gadget manufacturers not only occur in the United States . Apple patent war between Samsung also flared in a number of other countries , including Germany , Britain , France , South Korea , Japan , the Netherlands , Australia , and several other areas with varying results .

Previously judge Lucy Koh had never appealed both to make peace alone , but both Apple and Samsung seem to prefer to maintain their own interests and poured tens of millions of dollars into the pockets of lawyers .

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