Samsung said in a statement: "In the case of Samsung's design patent damages, the US Supreme Court unanimously passed a ruling in favor of Samsung, but today's ruling blatantly ignored the Supreme Court's ruling."
"We will consider all options to achieve results that will not hinder innovation and fair competition between enterprises and consumers," Samsung added.
A person familiar with the market said that Samsung may consider "additional legal action" as part of "all options", which means that Samsung will appeal to the court and seek another round of legal war.
The legal battle between South Korea and American technology giants began with the design infringement of 20 1 1. The first ruling was on 20 12, which ruled that Samsung's smartphones and tablets infringed Apple's design patents.
Apple claimed that Samsung infringed its design patents, such as "rounded black rectangular front", "rounded rectangular front and raised edges" and "grid with 16 color icon on black screen".
In 20 15, Samsung paid Apple $548 million in compensation, including $399 million as compensation for design infringement.
If the latest judgment is officially confirmed, Samsung will need to pay an additional $654.38+$400 million.
Since the dispute began, Apple has demanded compensation of $654.38+billion from Samsung, claiming that Korean companies have increased their sales revenue by $2.3 billion by selling counterfeit products, and made a profit of $654.38+billion.
Sun Yanbiao, an analyst in the first mobile phone industry, believes that from the competition between Samsung and Apple, Samsung is second only to Apple in the mobile phone market in the United States and Europe, but its position in the developing market is facing the challenge of China mobile phone manufacturers.
Sun Yanbiao believes that this is a troublesome thing for Samsung. At that time, Samsung and Apple also sued HTC. Later, HTC was labeled as patent infringement because it lost the case, and suffered a fiasco in the European and American markets. Samsung's mobile phone was recycled by NOTE7 explosion the year before last. If we lose the patent dispute again this time, it will have a great impact on the European and American markets.
However, Fu Liang, an analyst in the mobile phone industry, believes that patent disputes are very common in the mobile phone industry. For example, Apple sued Samsung in the United States, Huawei sued Samsung in China, Ericsson sued Xiaomi in India, and Coolpad sued Xiaomi in China. Litigation has become a means for everyone to fight for their rights. In the end, the two sides may sit down and negotiate and pay a certain fee to solve the dispute.
Fu Liang said that Samsung is currently the world's largest smartphone supplier, and Apple ranks second in sales, but in terms of profit, Apple accounts for 70% to 80% of the profits of the global mobile phone industry.
Talking about the enlightenment of this incident to China manufacturers, Sun Yanbiao reminded that once this patent lawsuit is started, it will cost a lot of money and energy, and it will also encounter various sales bans. Therefore, China mobile phone factory must find a safe patent "armor" when going out to sea, otherwise, once overseas manufacturers find a vulnerability attack, they will fail.