The Supreme Court Dec. 6 reversed an appeals court decision requiring Samsung Electronics Inc. to turn over all the profits it made on smartphone sales that infringed Apple Inc.'s iPhone design patents (Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc., U.S., 15-777, 12/6/16).
The court unanimously held that a component of the final product can be the infringed design—not the entire phone. It sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reconsider the $399 million jury award to Apple. It’s unclear how much the award will be cut, or how long the decision ...
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