Apple has requested an increase in damages awarded in its US patent infringement suit against Samsung. A California jury ruled in August that Samsung had wilfully infringed several design and user-interface features of Apple's iPhone and awarded the US company USD 1.05 billion in damages. The companies will return to court in December to hear the result of an application by Apple for a sales ban on several of Samsung's smartphone and tablet devices. Apple has now demanded more extensive damages ahead of that hearing by calling for the award to be increased by USD 707 million. In a court hearing on 21 September the company said that the initial award was insufficient to compensate it for the "lasting harm" it had suffered, the Financial Times reports. Apple is also calling for a US sales ban on 26 smartphones and tablets produced by Samsung. Most of these are old models that contribute little to Samsung's revenues, but Apple also wants any ban to apply to devices "not colourably different" from the named devices, raising a possible threat to newer products such as the flagship Galaxy S3 phone. Samsung also filed its own response to the jury ruling, in which it called for a new trial, arguing that it had not been treated fairly in the original hearing. Additionally, Samsung questioned the size of the damages award, alleging errors in the calculation of its own profits and Apple's lost sales.
