Apple and Samsung have returned to court to reassess the amount of damages initially awarded to Apple.
In August 2012, Samsung was found guilty of infringing six Apple patents and was obliged to pay the biggest sum ever recorded amounting to $1 billion. The amount was revisited by a judge and said that it would need to be reassessed at a new hearing.
Now, the two big tech companies meet up again to discuss the $1 billion compensation the California court has initially awarded to Apple. The original jury handling the case, Judge Lucy Koh, had mistakenly calculated some parts of the damages.
According to BBC, the new judge handling the case said the $550 million was calculated correctly, but the remaining $450 million might be wrongly computed thus the need for recomputation.
The argument started when Apple claimed that Samsung has copied designs for the housing of the original iPhone and iPad. Samsung has also imitated user-interface elements like the tap-to-zoom and the bounce back response when a user continues scrolling after the end of the list.
On the contrary, Samsung argued that even before iPhone was revealed, the company was already working on rounded rectangular handsets with a single button. The company then sought $519 million from Apple for the damages.
During the time of the first ruling, the Korean smartphone maker said, "Today's verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices."
The Cupertino-based company, on the other hand, said, "At Apple, we value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy. We applaud the court for finding Samsung's behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right."
