A US judge ordered a new trial for November to review a portion of the
damages tossed out in the landmark patent case involving Apple and
Samsung.
Judge Lucy Koh set the case for November 19, according to the northern California district court docket.
The
new trial became necessary after the judge cut some $450 million from a
damage award of more than $1 billion to be paid by Samsung in a case in
which the US firm accused its South Korean rival of copying technology
from the iPhone and iPad.
Koh, in her ruling in March, affirmed the remainder of the award, amounting to $598.9 million.
Apple
accused its rival of massive and willful copying of its designs and
technology for smartphones and tablets, and won the landmark case in a
jury decision in August 2012. But the case has been on hold pending
multiple appeals.
Florian Mueller, a consultant who follows patent
issues, said that Samsung "hopes that the total damages figure will go
down (though it can't go below $650 million without an appeal because
that's the amount not vacated."
Mueller noted in a blog post that
"there is upside for Apple if the new jury awards it a higher percentage
of its court-approved damages claims than last time."
But he
noted that damages are less important than "injunctive relief," or
orders which court bar the sale of some Samsung devices.
The
California case is among several pending in courts and administrative
agencies around the world between the two electronics giants, each of
which accuses the other of infringing on its patents.
After years
of following and refining the iPhone's pioneering innovations a strategy
that resulted in bitter patent battles with Apple Samsung has dethroned
its California-based rival to become the world's top smartphone maker.
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