Apple filed a sales ban on Friday against nine older Samsung models after it failed to win the $2.2 billion monetary compensation it expected.
In May, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company won the suit against Samsung, but the jury only awarded only $120 million. The jury also concluded that Apple has infringed on one of the South Korean company's patents and asked to pay the latter $158,000 for damages.
Bloomberg reported that Apple filed a sales ban with U.S District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif. for nine devices including the Admire, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch, Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, Galaxy S3 and Stratosphere. These models were equipped with the infringed patents such as the automatic spelling corrections, slide-to-unlock function, and the ability for a user to make a call by clicking on a phone number within a web page or e-mail instead of having to dial it separately.
The filing also asked for new monetary compensation for damages.
"Apple will suffer irreparable harm if Samsung continues its use of the infringing features, that monetary damages cannot adequately compensate Apple for this resulting irreparable harm," Apple wrote in its court filing, quoted by re/code.
The company seemed to change its strategy targeting a sales ban instead of going after monetary compensation after 3 years of attempt.
"After the jury rejected Apple's grossly exaggerated damages claim, Apple is once again leaning on the court to push other smartphones out of the market," Samsung spokesman Adam Yates said in an e-mailed statement to Bloomberg. "If granted, this would stifle fair competition and limit choice for American consumers."
But the chance of a sales ban would not be easy since previous attempts failed to get court approval. Legal experts believed that it would spark another battle between the two smartphone giants since Samsung might file a sales ban on some Apple products too for infringing two of its patents used on the iPhone 5 and earlier models of the iPad and iPod.
Apple spokesperson Kristin Huguet refused to comment about the issue.
