Supreme Court to hear Samsung's appeal in Apple design patents case
The U.S. Supreme Court has given Samsung a last chance to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Apple for allegedly infringing its iPhone design patents.
The high court on Monday agreed to hear part of Samsung's appeal of an award of $399 million in damages for infringement of three design patents, which cover the face and rounded bezel design of the Apple iPhone and the grid of icons on the phone's home screen.
Samsung, with support from Google, Facebook and other tech companies, had asked the court to take a new look at design patents, even though the rules have remained largely unchanged for more than a century.
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