Apple and Samsung have made their closing arguments in the latest patent trial between the two companies, with the jury starting deliberations expected to continue throughout today. While Apple is seeking $2.2 billion in damages for alleged patent infringement by Samsung, Samsung is only asking for $7 million from Apple. According to an Apple attorney, failing to award the Cupertino company a large sum for damages would validate Samsung’s “illegal strategy” of copying the iPhone, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“We don’t think we owe Apple a nickel,” Samsung lawyer John Quinn said. “They’ll be dancing in the streets of Cupertino if you give them $100 million.”
Lawyers hammered home their key points on Tuesday, with Apple claiming Samsung had to copy the iPhone to make up ground in the smartphone market. “Where was Samsung before the iPhone? You know the answer to that one.
They didn’t even have a smartphone,” Apple attorney Harold McElhinny said. Samsung claims it relied on developments by Google that were being developed before the iPhone’s debut.
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