Samsung makes last-chance appeal to Supreme Court on Apple verdict
Samsung is attempting to take its years-old patent fight with Apple to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, it filed an appeal asking the court to take a look at the rules regarding design patents -- rules that haven't been touched in 120 years.
The appeal comes on the same day Samsung is due to pay Apple $548 million in damages in relation to multiple patent claims and is something of a last-ditch effort by the company to reduce the overall total due.
It relates to an award of $399 million in damages for infringement of three design patents, which cover the face and rounded bezel design of the iPhone and the grid of 16 icons on the phone's home screen.
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