Samsung will drop injunction requests against Apple products in
Samsung will drop injunction requests against Apple products in France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. Samsung had sought the sales bans over claims Apple had infringed on some of its standard-essential patents. “Samsung remains committed to licensing our technologies on…
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fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, and we strongly believe it is better when companies compete fairly in the marketplace, rather than in court,” Samsung said in a statement. The move came a day after U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., ruled against Apple’s request for an injunction against eight Samsung phones targeted in its successful lawsuit against Samsung. That ruling was part of post-trial motions in the case, which have continued since a jury in San Jose awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages in August over its claims of patent infringement (CD Aug 28 p6) . Samsung continues to fight the jury’s verdict, though on Monday Koh ruled against the company’s request for a new jury trial. The same day, Koh ruled against Apple’s request for the injunction. “Apple simply has not established a sufficient causal nexus between infringement of its design patents and irreparable harm,” she said in her ruling. “Though evidence that Samsung attempted to copy certain Apple features may offer some limited support for Apple’s theory, it does not establish that those features actually drove consumer demand.”