Apple wins appeal, $120 mn award from Samsung restoredA US appeals court on Friday handed Apple a victory in one of its battles with rival Samsung, reinstating a $119.6 million verdict for the iPhone maker for patent infringement. Friday’s ruling said Samsung failed to prove that some of the Apple innovations were “obvious” and thus not able to be patented. Apple asked for an “en banc” rehearing of the case — before all the appeals court judges — following February’s decision to toss out the award. Apple had sought some $2.2 billion at trial, only to have a jury award the California-based company $119.6 million. In February, the panel of judges ruled that Samsung did not infringe on one of the Apple patents and that the remaining two, which involved auto-correct and slide-to-unlock features, were not valid.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 07, 2016 17:03 UTC