The US computer group Apple won a small legal victory Thursday in the United States against its big South Korean rival Samsung, which could consequently be forced to change some features of its mobile devices.
An appeals court canceled a ruling this year by the California judge Lucy Koh, who had rejected a request from Apple to prohibit certain features of Samsung’s aircraft violating its patents. This followed a trial after which Samsung was found guilty of violating Apple patents in May 2014 and ordered to pay 120 million dollars in damages. It was only a partial victory for Apple, which called for $ 2 billion and had obtained much more substantial benefits (over 900 million) after the previous two river trial on similar charges in 2012 and 2013. Despite the conviction of Samsung, the judge Lucy Koh had also refused a few months later an application for Apple qu’interdiction claiming to be his rival for sale in the United States of appliances including features violating its patents. She had estimated that Apple had not proved “irreparable damage”.
In its Thursday ruling, the Court of Appeal notes, however, that Apple demanded a limited ban, not striking all smartphones and tablets Samsung incriminated, but only the functionality of these devices violating its patents. Clearly, such a prohibition would enable Samsung to continue selling its devices, provided edit to remove the disputed features. The decision finds that the trial judge erred, and calls for a resumption of the proceedings. The confrontation between Apple and Samsung, which dominate the global market for smartphones and tablets, is, however, particularly monitoring. The two groups had reached a partial truce last year, leaving most of their reciprocal lawsuits in the world but not in the United States, where Samsung had even announced in August its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court on the trial of convictions
of 2012 and 2013.
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