Samsung has planned to ask the US Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a San Jose federal jury’s 2012 verdict that was against the South Korean technology giant. The jury’s verdict basically found that Samsung violated Apple’s iPhone patents.
Samsung filed papers on Wednesday in which the company has moved to put the ongoing patent battle with Apple on hold while it tries to press its appeal to the county’s highest court.
In a bid to hold off paying Apple hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for the patent violations the Samsung’s legal team wrote that the case has issues of enormous importance to patent litigation and the scope of innovation, especially in high-technology industries.
Moreover just last week the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Samsung’s request to reconsider a ruling earlier this year. So this meant that Samsung’s last and only option was the Supreme Court, to try to overturn the adverse jury verdict. Now the Supreme Court could decide by the end of its term next June whether it will take the case or not.
The South Korean giant still maintains that the three-judge Federal Circuit panel has erred earlier this year when it left intact a jury’s verdict that Samsung’s devices which include smartphones and tablets infringed Apple’s design patents.
Apart from this Samsung has also received support from Silicon heavyweights such as Google, Facebook and even Hewlett-Packard. These companies are backing Samsung’s request for a rehearing.
The South Korean company has basically appealed a San Jose jury’s August 2012 verdict that the company has violated Apple’s patent rights in 23 products such as the Galaxy S2 smartphone.
Moreover the verdict also states that Samsung has to pay $930 million in damages to Apple. Then another federal jury last year found that Samsung had copied iPhone technology in its products and awarded $120 million in damages to Apple which was a fraction of what the company had sought.
