Samsung Ordered to Pay Swatch Millions in Trademark Suit
The judge said Samsung’s Galaxy Store enabled infringement by reviewing and displaying 26 apps tied to luxury watch brands.
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Since 2015, the Korean technology giant has been offering digital dials imitating ten brands of the Bienois watchmaker on its Galaxy App Store platform. A separate procedure is still under way in New York.Swatch won the trial in London that had been against Samsung for years about counterfeit digital watch dials.The South Korean tech giant will have to pay the Bienois watchmaker $11.6 million.Swatch Group claimed $170 million in damages for coun…
Africa’s most-used phone brand Samsung ordered to pay $11.6 million over copied luxury watch apps
Samsung, the most widely used individual mobile-device brand in Africa, has been ordered to pay $11.6 million after third-party apps offered through its Galaxy marketplace copied some of the world’s best-known luxury watches.
The South Korean company Samsung must pay the Swiss group Swatch 11.6 million dollars (about 9.9 million euros) based on the judgment of the High Court in London.
Do you have a smartwatch that lets you set those fun watch faces à la a classic Breguet or a sporty Omega? It now appears that Samsung has adopted those designs a little too enthusiastically from luxury watch brands of the Swatch Group.
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