Samsung's smart sale is stopped on Apple's favor

In a patent infringement action by Apple and Samsung that has been fighting the muddy fight for five years, the federal court in the state of California, USA, acknowledged that Samsung infringed Apple's patent rights and sells its smartphone We decided to halt.

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In a lawsuit in which Apple filed Samsung for patent infringement, in May 2014 the jury recognized Samsung's patent infringement and accredited damages of $ 120 million (about 14.4 billion yen) to Apple. However, concerning Apple's claim of Samsung smartphone sales injunction, Lucy Ko said that "disadvantages incurred by Apple are being covered by damages" and dismissed. Apple appealed the decision to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and in September 2015 the US Federal Circuit appealed, "The right to exclude the use of property rights by competitors is important, "The right to maintain exclusivity is the right derived from the Constitution of the United States of America and it is the essence of the patent right", judging the first instance judgment and requesting the federal court to review again and remanded.

And on January 18, 2016, at the revocation court, at last, the decision to "halt the sale of products infringing the patent by three infringement of Samsung Apple patents" was decided. Patents that have been certified as infringing Samsung relate to "unlock by slide", "automatic correction of spelling" and "quick link", and as Samsung terminals using these technologies, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2 , Galaxy S2, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch, Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, Galaxy S3 and so on. The validity of this decision will arise 30 days after the judgment, but as for QuickLink's patent, Samsung will escape the obligation to correct software as the patent right itself will disappear by chance at the end of January 2016 .


The models for which sales suspension was approved by this decision are both smartphones sold a few years ago, and the impact of sales prohibition is expected to have little impact on Samsung. However, the fact that the injunction of the product was approved due to patent infringement seems to be a crackdown on Chinese manufacturers' advance of the American market, which is pointed out as suspected infringement of the patent, represented by Xiaomi, and Apple's future sales It seems to have a big meaning in strategy.

Apple has not made an official comment on the decision, but Samsung said, "I am disappointed that the consumer chooses Samsung's past smartphone from being beside Apple. Will not have much of a huge impact on American consumers, but it is an example that Apple used to abuse the justice system to restrict the range of consumer choices in the future. "

[Official Statement] Samsung's Response to Court Injunction - Samsung Newsroom
http://news.samsung.com/us/2016/01/19/official-statement-response-legacy-mobile-injunction/