A third jury trial in a patent dispute between Samsung Electronics and Apple in a court in California has been postponed pending a U.S. Supreme Court review of the principle for the award of damages for infringement of design patents.

The third trial in the case that dates back to April 2011 had been set for March 28 to reassess the damages to be paid by Samsung on five products that were earlier found to infringe certain Apple patents and dilute its trade dresses, which refer to the overall look and feel of the product. An appeals court had struck down the damages on trade dress dilution relating to these devices, as the court decided they were not protectable.

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