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Technology Samsung Electronics and Apple reached an agreement to settle their latest dispute, a case of plagiarism of smartphone design patents that faced these two giants [19659002] Companies "agreed to withdraw and resolve their remaining lawsuits and appeals in this case", the California Court, United States which was currently handling the dispute between Apple and Samsung, which refused to The commentary
The agreement would end a long process that has worn both companies and dates back to 2011, when Apple sued Samsung for allegedly plagiarizing the Appearance of its mobile devices iconic the iPhone .
The American It was the South Korean to use design patents as the rounded appearance of the corners, the design of the bezel that maintains the l & # 39; screen to the rest of the phone and the layout of the application icons on the screen. [19659003] In 2012, a US court agreed with Apple and ordered the South Korean company to offset it with $ 1.05 billion for profits from the commercialization of eleven models, including the Galaxy S II.
Three years later, Samsung compensated Apple with more than $ 548 million and in 2016 it got the US Supreme Court to exempt it from paying an additional $ 399 million by considering that plagiarism answered only a small part of the devices.
litigation later referred to a lower court, the San Jose court, which on May 25 ordered Samsung to make a new payment of $ 539 million ($ 465 million). euros)
South Korea requested a reconsideration of the decision that would have triggered the negotiations and the agreement the details of which were not disclosed , including the final compensation to Apple.
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