Apple Wants A Whopping $2.5 Billion From Samsung In Patent Suit

In the ultimate jaw-dropping headlines to advance out of Apple and Samsung's U.S. obvious dispute, Apple is anticipating to gather a whopping $2.5 billion from its South Korean opponent in a San Jose hearing that starts Monday.

But, of course, whilst Apple is asking for that much, it's doubtful to take so sufficient money, or even come out the winner, when all is mentioned and done. First, the $2.5 billion that Apple wants Samsung to pay is an unprecedented, roughly diverting amount. Second, Samsung is moreover looking a half-cent levy in indemnification for every Apple iPhone and iPad sold, alleging that Apple is infringing on patents of its own.

"These figures are flattering high," mentioned Mark A. Lemley, Director of Stanford's Program in Law, Science and Technology. "If Apple got the $2.5 billion, it would be the largest obvious feat in history."

In a identical obvious disagreement in Australia, a panel of judges Monday called Apple and Samsung's technology and pattern obvious disputes " silly ." In the U.K., a panel of judges ruled that the Samsung Milky Way add-on couldn't presumably be found to transgress on the iPad since it's " not as cold " and has systematic Apple to run ads in British newspapers saying that Samsung doesn't transgress on its patents.

As far as the US litigation, either side getting precisely what it asks for is unlikely, Lemley said. "Those figures will expected advance down, but really, the allowance is lesser to the injunctions at interest in this case."

Leading up to the San Jose trial, both Apple and Samsung have had their share of tiny victories and defeats in the area of product injunctions. In June, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who is presiding over the San Jose proceedings, released a rough sales anathema on Samsung's Milky Way Tab 10.1 inscription and the Milky Way Nexus smartphone. In July, about a week after the smartphone anathema was imposed, a sovereign appeals justice overturned the sales stoppage.

"A jury could order either way on a few of these pattern patents and injunctions," Lemley said. "The iPad pattern obvious is primarily a rectangle. If it's unequivocally the box that nobody else can pattern a inscription that looks similar to a rectangle, then a few changes will must be done opposite the whole industry."

Apple is accusing Samsung of ripping off the look and feel of its iPhone and iPad products, together with using Apple patents to advance the technology in its products, that have led to taking flight Samsung sales.

"Samsung's infringing sales have enabled Samsung to pull ahead of Apple as the largest producer of smartphones in the world," Apple mentioned in justice papers initial performed by the website Foss Patents . "Samsung has reaped billions of dollars in increase and caused Apple to remove hundreds of millions of dollars by its breach of Apple's egghead property."

Samsung, meanwhile, accuses Apple of infringing on patents, "without that Apple could not have turn a successful member in the mobile telecommunications industry," according to a Reuters report. Samsung moreover indicted Apple of working to "stifle bona fide contest and confine consumer selection to sustain its historically unreasonable profits," the inform said.