It will be the Supreme Court's first case involving design patents in more than 120 years, when the products at issue were carpets and rugs. Last May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld the 2012 patent verdict, but overturned Samsung's liability for trademark infringement. Samsung asked the Supreme Court to review the design patent part of the case. On Tuesday, the companies will argue over a provision in U.S. patent law requiring infringers to pay a design patent owner their total profits on an infringing "article of manufacture." The case is Samsung Electronics Co Ltd v. Apple Inc, in the Supreme Court of the United States, No.

Source: dna October 10, 2016 11:15 UTC