Samsung recently filed a petition to have its appeal heard by the US Supreme Court in an effort to reduce or eliminate the $548 million that the company has been forced to pay rival Apple over a patent dispute. Although there isn’t a guarantee that the Supreme Court will hear Samsung’s case, this is the South Korean manufacturer’s last ditch effort for any chance of winning. As it stands, Samsung has been partially rebuffed at every level of the justice system since first losing a patent infringement judgement back in 2012.
The company said the following in a statement that was provided to Reuters:
Samsung is escalating this case because it believes that the way the laws were interpreted is not in line with modern times.
A patented design might be the essential feature of a spoon or rug. But the same is not true of smartphones, which contain countless other features that give them remarkable functionality wholly unrelated to their design.
Source: Reuters via AppleInsider
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