Smartphone rivals Apple and Samsung returned to a federal courtroom this week to resume their long-running patent dispute.
The latest trial kicked off in San Jose, Calif., after a judge last year found the jury instructions in the original 2012 trial misstated the law and ordered a new trial.
The 2012 case resulted in a jury ordering Samsung to pay more than $1 billion in damages to Apple for infringing on patents for the iPhone. But the award was curbed by a retrial the following year, and the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a portion of the damages after ruling that they could reflect either individual components of a product or the entire product itself.
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