Apple requests another $179 million in supplemental damages from Samsung

It’s not clear which Samsung mobiles Apple is seeking damages for because a majority of the records are sealed from public screening at this time.

Still, after recent legal court proceedings most people thought that the fanfare is over. Tech giant Apple Inc. Samsung paid Apple the bulk of the judgement, $548.2 million (roughly Rs. 3,653 crores), on December 14.

Three weeks after finally receiving $548,176,477 from Samsung over the South Korean company’s infringement of Apple’s design and technology patents dating back to a 2012 jury verdict, the iPhone maker has filed for another $178,659,870 in supplemental damages and $1,192,490 in interest payments. “Throw in about a million dollars in interest and you’ve got Apple’s beef in a nutshell”.

The figure is based on unit sales figures provided by Samsung of five infringing models (quite old Galaxy S II variants) that Samsung continued to sell after the verdict was reached over three years ago.

In court papers filed on Wednesday, Apple Inc stated Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 005930.KS owes nearly $ one hundred eighty million in supplemental damages and curiosity. US District Court Judge Lucy Koh officially granted the motion late yesterday. Samsung maintains the 2012 verdict was wrong, and it’s requested the US Supreme Court help remedy the nation’s patent system along the way and to review the evidence. The two actually went at it in court again over allegations of patent infringement in Samsung’s newer devices, but that didn’t make almost as much of a splash.