Facebook and Google Demand Review of Apple v Samsung Ruling

Facebook and Google are among a group of technology companies that has urged the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review its decision ordering Samsung to pay Apple damages for selling smart phones that infringed three design patents.


In an amicus brief filed by Facebook and Google, as well HP, eBay and Dell, the group argued that if the federal circuit’s decision is not reversed then it “will have significant ramifications” for the parties and the technology industry more generally.


Samsung had appealed against the court’s May 2015 decision that it should pay Apple $548 million in damages after it was found to have infringed the three design patents.


Of the $548 million, $399 million accounted for the total profits generated from the sale of the infringing smart phones. Samsung wanted the damages to be limited to the profits made.