A London court already found 26 of Samsung’s smartwatch faces infringed Swatch trademarks. Now the two sides are fighting over the bill.
The fight between a Swiss watchmaker and the world’s largest phone maker has come down to a number, and the number is $170m.
Swatch is asking the High Court in London to make Samsung pay that sum for 26 digital watch faces it says were dressed up to look like the group’s brands and sold to people who thought they were getting the real thing.
The claim, reported by Reuters, covers infringement Swatch dates between October 2015 and February 2019.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!Over that stretch, the watchmaker says the offending watch-face apps were downloaded roughly 160,000 times across Britain and the European Union, each one a small advertisement for what Swatch describes as a cheap copy of an exclusive design.
