Apple: Samsung sold 37 million infringing phones in two years

Apple argued during its lawsuit against Samsung in the US that it lost sales and royalties because Samsung sold 37 million mobile phones that infringe its patents. Therefore, a $2.2 billion claim for damages would be justified.

The lawsuit started last week in the US state of California and concerns the possible infringement that Samsung would make on five of Apple’s patents with a tablet and nine smartphones. The products were sold between August 2011 and the end of 2013, PCWorld describes. Apple claims to have suffered significant damage from the sale because it concerns patents that relate to ease of use: this would set the iPhone apart and Samsung would have lured many new smartphone buyers away with the use of the technology.

“Once entry-level users make a purchase, they tend to make their next purchase from the same manufacturer, and the same is true for other products and services from that manufacturer,” said Chris Vellturo, chief executive of Quantitative Economic Solutions, who paid Apple compensation. calculated based on research by a professor from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The patents cover, among other things, the slide-to-unlock function, automatic text correction, contextual linking of menus to telephone numbers and email addresses, the ability to search both the phone and the Internet via a single search function, and the ability to view data in the background. to synchronize.

According to the study, with a $149 phone, users would pay $102 for automatic word correction and $69 for contextual links. Tablet users should pay $32 for slide-to-unlock and $33 for universal search when purchasing a $299 model. However, the professor behind the study warned that conclusions should not be drawn too quickly based on his study and that there are many more considerations involved in a purchase.