The long-running case back to a 2012 verdict that found Samsung had infringed Apple's patents. Photo/123RF.
Apple is seeking about US$1 billion (NZ$1.5 billion) from Samsung in another go-round stemming from a long-running smartphone patent-infringement dispute.
Jurors at the retrial before US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, learned at the outset that the South Korean company infringed three of Apple's design patents and
two utility patents. Their sole job, Apple lawyer Bill Lee said, is to determine what damages Apple can collect.
The basic question for the jury is: should Samsung have to pay damages on the whole device or just the components that were infringed? Samsung says the latter - and is urging the jury to limit damages to US$28 million (NZ$41 million).
"Lawsuits can take a long time," Lee told jurors Tuesday. He asked them to "step back in time" to 2006 to consider flip phones, sliders, and what other cell phones looked like before Apple's iPhone.
Samsung made US$3.3 billion (NZ$4.8 billion) in revenue and US$1 billion (NZ$1.5 billion) in profit from millions of phones that infringed Apple's three design patents, Lee said. That's apart from profits Samsung made from infringing two of Apple's utility patents, Lee said.
