San Francisco, Jun 28 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> Apple and Samsung have ended a years-long patent battle over copied iPhone design with an undisclosed settlement, according to a US court filing today.<\/p>\n
The world’s two biggest smartphone makers reached a truce in their seven-year-old court battle a month after a federal court jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple some 539 million for copying patented iPhone features.<\/p>\n
That award was seen as a victory for Apple, which had argued in court that design was essential to the iPhone.<\/p>\n
Financial terms of the settlement were not revealed and neither company elaborated on the brief court order which dismissed the litigation dating back to 2011.<\/p>\n
“Whereas the court has been advised by the parties that the above-entitled action has been settled, all remaining claims and counterclaims in this case are hereby dismissed with prejudice,” US District Court Judge Lucy Koh wrote.<\/p>\n
When contacted by AFP for comment, Apple referred to a statement released last month after the jury announced the damages award.<\/p>\n
“This case has always been about more than money,” the statement read.<\/p>\n
“It is important that we continue to protect the hard work and innovation of so many people at Apple.<\/p>\n
South Korea-based Samsung declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Apple’s lawsuit claimed Samsung, now the world’s biggest handset maker, copied the design and other features of the iPhone as the smartphone market was exploding.<\/p>\n
The case was keenly watched as a precedent for whether design is so important that it could actually be considered the “article of design” even in a product as complex as a smartphone.<\/p>\n
The case had been sent back to the district court following a Supreme Court decision to revisit an earlier 400 million damage award.<\/p>\n
The jury had been asked to determine whether design features at issue in the case are worth all profit made from Samsung smartphones that copied them — or whether those features are worth just a fraction because they are components.<\/p>\n
The three design patents in the case apply to the shape of the iPhone’s black screen with rounded edges and a bezel, and the rows of colorful icons displayed.<\/p>\n
Two utility patents also involved apply to “bounce-back” and “tap-to-zoom” functions.<\/p>\n
An original trial finding that Samsung violated Apple patents preceded a lengthy appellate dueling over whether design features such as rounded edges are worth all the money made from a phone.<\/p>\n
The retrial regarding damages was one element of a 548 million penalty — knocked down from an original 1 billion jury award — Samsung was ordered to pay for copying iPhone patents.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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