Apple seeks order blocking sale of some Samsung phones

NEW YORK. KAZINFORM Apple Inc. (AAPL), following a jury verdict that Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) infringed three of its patents, is seeking a U.S. sales ban on some older models of the South Korean company's smartphones.
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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, Bloomberg reports.

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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