Samsung Appeals Apple Patent Case To US Supreme Court

The South Korean tech giant Samsung on Monday filed an appeal to the US Supreme Court hoping to upend the ruling that found it liable for infringing patents on Apple’s iPhone and was ordered to pay $930 million, The Wall Street Journal reported. The amount was split into $548 million for technology patents and $382 million for charges that Samsung copied Apple's packaging materials.

“Samsung is escalating this case because it believes that the way the laws were interpreted is not in line with modern times,” the company said in a statement. “If the current legal precedent stands, it could diminish innovation, stifle competition, pave the way for design patent troll litigation and negatively impact the economy and consumers.”

IBTimes reported that initially Apple had sued Samsung for $2.5 billion. In 2012, the iPhone maker was awarded $1 billion in damages, but was later reduced on appeal to $930 million. Earlier this month, Samsung agreed to pay $548 million it owed to Apple for infringing technology patents.

The appeal to the Supreme Court, however, does not come as a surprise as the Korean tech company said at the time: "Samsung continues to reserve all rights to obtain reimbursement from Apple and/or payment by Apple of all amounts required to be paid as taxes. [...] Samsung further reserves all rights to reclaim or obtain reimbursement of any judgment amounts paid by Samsung to any entity in the event the partial judgment is reversed, modified, vacated or set aside on appeal or otherwise, including as a result of any proceedings before the USPTO addressing the patents at issue or as a result of any petition for writ of certiorari filed with the Supreme Court”.

Reuters reported that Apple did not address the new petition, but said in a statement, "We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy."