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it's the trial that never ends Apple and Samsung are heading back to court again over patent damages and yes this is the same lawsuit that has been stretching on since 2012 when Samsung was ordered to pay Apple for infringing three phone design patents while drama was around how Galaxy phones looked like iPhones with their rounded corners and colorful grid of app icons back in 2012 samsung was originally ordered to pay Apple more than 1 billion dollars but that amount has been whittled down over the years as Samsung's lawyers continue to fight over how much is spare to pay the issue went to the Supreme Court last year and in a victory for Samsung the court said the cost of damages could be based on just the part of the device that infringed a patent not necessarily based on the total profits made from an entire phone so now a u.s. district judge in California issued an order to have a new trial to recalculate how much Samsung should pay Apple for copying the look of the iPhone the big question of course is I can calculate a percentage of the profits made from just a few pieces of a phone's design Apple and Samsung have until Wednesday to set a new date for the trial I'm Bridget Carey for more details head to cnet.com