Dispute the patent war between Apple and Samsung entered a new phase with the presence of a petition recently filed a number of large technology companies who settled in Silicon Valley, California.
In court documents, as reported by Inside Sources (via Apple Insider), listed Google, Facebook, HP, Dell, Ebay and more make it a petition asking the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reconsider the decision of the judge who fined Samsung. They said that the jury's decision can cripple innovation in the realm of technology.
In a “friend of the court” brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on July 1, Dell, eBay, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Limelight Networks, Newegg, and SAS Institute spoke out against the panel’s decision to uphold a California jury’s damages award, saying it could stifle innovation in the tech sector.
The giant technology group argued that if Apple wins patent dispute it, the result will adversely affect many other companies that have spent billions of dollars each year to research and develop technologies and components are quite complex.
California high court had previously been fined the Samsung for $930 million to be paid to Apple for violating his patent. Samsung did not accept it and then an appeal against the jury's decision.
In his appeal, Samsung managed to get a reduction in the fine be $548 million because of the disputed patents are not worth too much. Samsung mentioned does not sell components or features in the patent separately.
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