Judge Koh on Friday confirmed that the SIRI patent case that Apple filed against Samsung will continue and will not be stalled and will be scheduled for trial in March 2014. This is the second case that apple filed in parallel the to larger case in which Apple won $1.05 billion against Samsung. Apple is accusing Samsung of violating a batch of patents that include rights to search technology that is part of the iPhone SIRI voice feature. Before deciding upon taking up the case right or putting it on hold. Judge Koh asked about it. Apple objected to putting the case on hold to which Judge Koh confirmed on Friday for the case to continue
Earlier, Judge Koh ordered Samsung and Apple to streamline their cases significantly by cutting down the number of claims and expert witnesses, which seems quite difficult to happen. In an intense battle of patents between Apple and Samsung over various patent infringements Judge Koh passed a verdict for Samsung to shell of a huge sum of $1.05 billion as penalty towards Apple. Apple went further and request to ban the sales of several variants of Samsung smartphones in the US to which the case hasn’t been decided yet.
In an interesting set of developments Judge Koh recently said that $450 million is waived off of what Samsung needs to pay to Apple for now and the case related to that $450 million will be heard again. Both parties reacted in a varied manned to this, Apple appealed against the decision and Samsung is trying to extend the revaluation of the case for other devices as well in an attempt to waive off more amount from penalty.