Last year, Samsung Electronics lost a patent battle with Apple. A new trial starting this week will determine how much more Samsung has to pay for that loss. Last year of August, a California jury found that Samsung infringed on a series of Apple patents and was told to pay more than $1 billion in damages. However, the price tag was later revisited by the judge and vacated about $450 million of that original award, declaring that it was unclear how the jury calculated the original figure. Samsung was still required to pay Apple $600 million. The new trial is to determine whether Samsung should pay more or less than the $450 million that was vacated. $1 billion wouldn’t greatly affect the companies’ finances for Samsung and Apple, the two biggest profit makers in the electronics industry. The fight over damagers is more about the future than the present. The trial compared Apple’s products with Samsung’s to illustrate how similar they were. It involves five patents, including one that covers the design of the face of a mobile device as well as cover 13 products. The bigger and more powerful your company is, the more rivals you’ll have. And to defeat those rivals, the company will sometimes have to pull out dirty tricks from their sleeves and do anything they can to take them down. This article accurately portrays how Apple is fighting to take down Samsung as it threatens to take their number one spot in the electronics industry.
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