Apple vs. Samsung
In the second damage suit trial on patent infringement, plaintiff Apple demanded some US$2 billion (2.1 trillion won) and defendant Samsung demanded some US$6.94 million (7.35 billion won).
Last week in a US court in San Jose in California, Apple’s lawyer Harold McElhinny claimed that Samsung should pay in damages for Apple’s “lost profits” and “reasonable royalty” for infringement of its patents.
The lawyer also said, “Samsung Electronics sold 37 million smartphones and tablets that are concerned with this patent infringement trial.”
Another lawyer for Apple said, “The two allegede that Samsung’s patents were not developed by them.” He explained that Samsung bought them after the lawsuit was filed.
He further claimed that Samsung set a low compensation amount for its counteraction intentionally to make the jury underestimate the value of the patents.
Against Apple’s claim, John Quinn, Samsung’s lawyer, said, “This is a huge exaggeration, and an insult to your [the jury’s] intelligence.” He explained that Samsung products’ software features that Apple claims to own actually belong to Google Android, and addressed the jury by saying, “Apple is trying to recover what they have lost in the market from you. Android is truly iPhone’s main competition, and Apple is paranoid about Google, so this is what Apple is aiming at in this trial.”
He presented that Samsung Electronics is demanding a total of US$6.94 million in damages for Apple violating their two patents.
By patent, US$6.78 million is claimed for the patent that records digital video and voice, and US$158,400 for the remote video transmission system patent.
Five patents that Apple claims in this trial include slide-unlocking, automatic completion, phone call by tapping, integrated search, and data synchronization.
After all the deposition, Apple called their Senior Vice President Phil Shiller as the trial’s first witness.
Initially, the trial was supposed to open with 10 selected jurors, but 2 withdrew citing personal reasons, which was accepted by judge Lucy Koh.