Not content with taking on just the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Apple’s next battle is not over privacy issues once again, but this time they are taking on the Federal Circuit in the continuing patent case against Samsung. The two tech giants have been at legal loggerheads for the past few years, but a three-judge panel decided to overturn the $120 million verdict just last February against Samsung. Apple claims that this decision violates their Seventh Amendment right to have a jury hear the facts of the case.
Apple supposedly won the case against Samsung in 2014 when the court decided that the latter violated three of the five patents that were in dispute. The Cupertino company was supposedly going to receive $119.6M in damages but just last month, an appeals court decided that they did not actually violate one of the three for which they were convicted for, and then the other two were declared invalid.
However, what Apple is now contesting is that this decision was based not just on the past trial record but also on new evidence that they have discovered. So basically, what Apple is saying is that these new facts of the case should be presented in front of a jury and not just an appellate court, because otherwise, their Seventh Amendment rights, which refers to a trial by jury, have been violated.
There hasn’t been any response yet from the Court of Appeals, but for sure, neither parties would back down from a multi-million fight like this, and so most likely, we will see this moving to the Supreme Court.
VIA: Reuters
