Neither side in a bitter patent battle is satisfied
with Apple Incorporated.’s $1bn jury verdict over Samsung Electronics
Company after a three-week trial this summer, Associated Press reported on Sunday.
Samsung wants a new trial. Apple is seeking an additional $707m in damages and interest.
The two companies filed a blizzard of legal papers
late Friday and early Saturday with their demands that a federal judge
in San Jose significantly amend – or toss out altogether – the jury’s
Aug. 24 verdict.
The jury found that 26 Samsung products ripped off Apple’s technology at the heart of its iPhones and iPads.
“Samsung made a calculated business decision to copy
the industrial designs, graphical user interfaces, and touchscreen
navigation technology of the iPhone and iPad,” Apple lawyers wrote in
court papers, arguing for the additional damages. “Samsung has reaped
extraordinary rewards from its wrongful sale of iPhone and iPad clones
by taking market share, revenues, and profits from Apple.”
The Apple lawyers contend that the “massive damage to
the iPhone’s distinctive product identity caused by Samsung’s sale of
millions of iPhone clones is irreversible.”
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has scheduled a Dec. 6
hearing to discuss the myriad issues raised by both companies. Samsung
says it will appeal if Koh turns down its demands.
The two companies are locked in a ferocious struggle
for supremacy in the global smartphone market. Samsung is the worldwide
leaders in smartphone sales, securing a market share of 33 per cent in
the second quarter, up from 17 per cent a year ago. Apple’s fell
slightly to 17 per cent, from 19 per cent a year ago.
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