APPLE CONTINUES ITS CHARGE AGAINST THE KOREAN COMPANY SAMSUNG SINCE ITS OWN DEVELOPMENT HAS STYMIED AND ALL THE LIBERAL COMPANY CAN DO IS GO TO COURT TO GAIN FURTHER SALES FOR ITS PRODUCT–APPLE WANTS OLDER SAMSUNG SMARTPHONES TAKEN OUT OF PUBLIC SALES CAN WE SAY GREED – FROM THE WORLD’S $338 BILLION MARKET

Apple, following a jury verdict that Samsung Electronics infringed three of its patents, is seeking a U.S. sales ban on some older models of the South Korean company’s smartphones.
Apple, which on May 2 won $120 million of the $2.2 billion it sought, identified nine devices it wants barred in a filing yesterday with U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California.

Winning a ban may prove difficult for Apple because Koh, who also presided over the companies’ first U.S. trial in 2012, twice rejected the iPhone-maker’s request in that case, legal experts have said. This time around, Samsung can also seek a ban because the jury concluded that Apple infringed one of its patents.

Apple’s bid “seems like a hard sell, given that it failed to achieve an injunction in the last trial with significant design patent infringement and similar feature patent infringement,” said Michael Risch, a law professor at Villanova University.

Apple, which has said that a sales ban is more important than monetary damages, has been waging legal battles with Samsung since 2011 across four continents. The world’s top two smartphone makers each seek to dominate a market that was valued at $338.2 billion last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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