The Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) vs Samsung Electronics trial, or rather the battle royal of patents concluded recently with Samsung losing out big time. Apple Inc (AAPL) was awarded $1billion dollars and while unfounded rumours of the Korean company making the payout in 30 trucks full of nickels circulated the web, Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics were actually getting ready to be served the date for another round of in-court fighting.
With the patent case behind them and Samsung proven to have intentionally and laboriously infringed on Apple’s patents, the next step for Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be to ban all such devices built and marketed by Samsung that infringe on said patents. Judge Luch koh has set the date for injunction on December 6.
According to this court filing, Jugde Lucy Koh said,
Having considered the scope of Apple’s preliminary injunction request, the additional posttrial motions that the parties have already filed and will file, and the substantial overlap between the analysis required for Apple’s preliminary injunction motion and the parties’ various other posttrial motions, the Court believes consolidation of the briefing and hearing on the post-trial motions is appropriate.
The filing also provides details of other hearing dates set forth regarding injunctions and hearing for the case.
In the mean time, Samsung will not only appeal the verdict but will also seek damages for and the lift of the previously imposed ban on the sale of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 within the US. The ban was imposed in June earlier this year before the court proceedings even began and the tablet was not found to infringe on Apple’s patents despite Apple Inc (AAPL) insisting that the Galaxy Tab looked like the iPad. What this means is that though a number of Samsung’s devices have been deemed to be built on and using technology patented by Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), the Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn’t one of them. Lets see how this goes and if the ban will be lifted.
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