[JURIST] Samsung and Apple [corporate websites] released a joint statement [statement, PDF] Thursday with the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] saying that Samsung will pay Apple $548 million by Dec. 14 for infringing Apple’s patents. Samsung also stated that it expects reimbursement if it succeeds in an planned appeal to the US Supreme Court regarding its liability for particular alleged iPhone design patent violations accounting for nearly $400 million of the reward. Apple plans to appeal Samsung’s “asserted rights to reimbursement.” In May the US Circuit Court for the Federal Circuit [official website] upheld [JURIST report] Apple’s 2012 victory against Samsung but reduced the damages from $1.05 billion to $930 million. The agreed-upon $548 million is well below the damages set in May, but it equals the last settlement amount determined by the courts.

This is the most recent installment of the ongoing patent dispute [JURIST op-ed] between the two electronics giants. In August 2014 the US District Court for the Northern District of California denied [JURIST report] Apple’s request to ban Samsung from selling any of its products that infringed on Apple’s patented technology. Earlier in August Apple and Samsung agreed to drop [JURIST report] all patent infringement lawsuits in courts outside of the US. The previous month Apple and Samsung also agreed to dismiss [JURIST report] their appeals of a patent infringement case at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) [official website] that resulted in an import ban on some older model Samsung phones. LastMay a jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of California ordered [JURIST report] Samsung to pay $119.6 million to Apple for two phone patent infringements.