Samsung Appeals to Supreme Court in Apple Patent Case

The recalculation could affect as much as US$382 million of the award to Apple, which was on grounds the South Korean electronics giant hurt Apple’s image by copying design features of the iPhone. However, the company has already faced its first major setback, its request for a full-panel CAFC rehearing having been shot down. Ever since, Samsung has been through several court trials to get the damages reduced to $548 million. The fact that Apple Inc.

During three jury trials in Silicon Valley, documents from both companies were exposed that illustrated a sense of fear at Samsung as Apple broke into the market and started attracting large numbers of customers. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s patent or trademark for 23 products mostly used in Galaxy S2 smartphone. In 2012, Samsung was found guilty of infringing on Apple’s patent and was forced to pay Apple $1.08 billion. And today it was revealed that Samsung will be pushing the war on a bit longer. Those same companies are expected to advise the Supreme Court to do the same.

For that reason alone, I’m nearly hoping the Supreme Court does take the case and some positive outcome for patent system reform is the result.

Of course the USPTO invalidating a patent isn’t the last word and we posted a report back in 2012 with statistics from the U.S. Patent Office showing that in the majority of these cases the ruling is eventually overturned with modest modifications. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s design patent is invalid could throw the case into further disarray.