Samsung loses the appeal and will have to pay Apple

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samsungA Samsung continues to face certain problems lately, after situations with the Galaxy Note7  which has experienced a wave of explosions, the company's appeal was rejected by the US Court of Appeals, and will no longer be required to make a substantial payment of $ 119,6 million to Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), (an extremely high value for writing in Kwanzas).

Samsung was accused in 2011 by its competitor in the market, Apple, of infringing patents related to the iconic, a design tool that slips to unlock. In the course of the case, in February of this year there was already a group of elements of justice accompanying the prosecution process, which said that Samsung had not infringed Apple patents and that it was not necessary to pay the amount that had previously been sentenced .

However, this time the same group made up of all its members, decided by means of a vote that the decision taken previously should not have given cause for Samsung. And this time the victory was even for Apple, the American court considers that the Galaxy manufacturer is the one that infringed patents related to the functionality of slide to unlock, that is to say, the South Korean company is expected to pay the $ 119,6 million to Apple.

One more negative news for Samsung and positive news for your opponent in the line of smartphones, the battle for these two companies continue to always tinker with the public of the technology world.

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