{"id":2030,"date":"2015-06-18T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inmentor.net\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2022-03-31T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:38:39","slug":"apple-vs-samsung-conflict-on-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/blog\/apple-vs-samsung-conflict-on-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple vs Samsung: conflict on patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this conflict in the USA, between <strong>Apple and Samsung<\/strong>, in relation with the <strong>infringement of several patents of Apple<\/strong>, Samsung, that has been already been condemned, has just obtained a small victory consisting in the <strong>reduction of the compensation<\/strong> payable to the giant of electronics industry from the USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indeed, at first, compensation by Samsung was evaluated in 1,005 million dollars, a figure that was down to 929 million. Recently, a Court of Appeal in Washington, <strong>denying the existence of an infringement by Samsung of a specific Apple patent<\/strong> covering the design of a Smartphone, further reduced such compensation. According to the Korean company, the amount payable should decrease about 382 million dollars more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case at issue, a quite spectacular one that started already in 2012, the same year of the <a href=\"http:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/lego-figures-are-european-community-trademarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case between Lego and Best-Lock<\/a>, is interesting because <strong>it shows the value that an Intellectual Property asset can reach<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we often say to Startups and SMEs, <strong>a proper strategy to protect their intangible assets<\/strong>, should not be limited to register a trade mark or obtain a grant of patent, but it should also take in consideration that a conflict with third parties could arise and including this hypothesis in the framework of an overall protection strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although, in such cases, we usually advise to try to find a <strong>good agreement between the parties<\/strong>, likewise <a href=\"http:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/war-and-peace-agreement-between-apple-and-ericsson-on-essential-patents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the one achieved between Apple and Ericsson<\/a>, it is important to be aware that sometimes the conflict is imposed as an essential tool in order to satisfy <a title=\"Intellectual properties and patents protection\" href=\"http:\/\/inmentor.net\/legal-advice-international-multilingual-law-firm\/intellectual-property-and-patent-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intellectual Property rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is both a delicate and dangerous aspect. Indeed, <strong>most of the time conflicts are not seen at beginning<\/strong>, they arise only later, once the value of intangible asset starts to increase or when it begins to bother competitors somehow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, it is important that any Intellectual Property right is accompanied by a <strong>proper contractual legal framework<\/strong>, in order to prevent, avoid or reduce the risk of disputes with third parties (competitors, suppliers, designers, etc.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Alessandro DI MARCO<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this conflict in the USA, between Apple and Samsung, in relation with the infringement of several patents of Apple, Samsung, that has been already been condemned, has just obtained a small victory consisting in the reduction of the compensation payable to the giant of electronics industry from the USA. Indeed, at first, compensation by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[103,104,105],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-patent-conflict-en","tag-patents-sme-en","tag-patents-startups-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmentor.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}