INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Samsung made $3.3 billion revenue from phones that infringed Apple's three design patents
(File)Washington: Apple is seeking about $1 billion from Samsung in another go-round stemming from a
long-running smartphone patent-infringement dispute.Jurors at the retrial before before U.S
District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, learned at the outset that the South Korean company infringed three of Apple's design
patents and two utility patents
Their sole job, Apple lawyer Bill Lee said, is to determine what damages Apple can collect.The basic question for the jury is: Should
Samsung have to pay damages on the whole device or just the components that were infringed Samsung says the latter -- and is urging the jury
to limit damages to $28 million."Lawsuits can take a long time," Lee told jurors Tuesday
He asked them to "step back in time" to 2006 to consider flip phones, sliders, and what other cell phones looked like before Apple's
iPhone.Samsung made $3.3 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profit from millions of phones that infringed Apple's three design patents,
That's apart from profits Samsung made from infringing two of Apple's utility patents, Lee said.A $1.05 billion jury verdict from 2012 has
been whittled down by a previous retrial in 2013, along with appeals and adjustments
After Samsung agreed to pay some damages, the case went to the U.S
Supreme Court in 2016 and was returned to Koh with an order to revisit a $399 million portion of damages.Without mentioning the Supreme
Court's ruling explicitly, Samsung lawyer John Quinn emphasized the room the decision affords the company to argue damages should be based
on the profits it made off the specific components that were found to infringe Apple patents - rather than the entire device.Quinn told
jurors to maintain an "open mind" and resist Apple's casting South Korean company as being "mired" in old phone models until it copied Apple
The scope of Apple's design patents "are so very narrow" he said."They're seeking profits on the entire phone," he said
But Apple's patents "do not cover the entire phone," Quinn said, adding that they are entitled only to the profits of the infringing
components, and "not on anything that's inside the phone."The case is Apple Inc
Samsung Electronics Co., 11-cv-01846, U.S
District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose).(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent
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