A U.S. court’s ruling that SamsungElectronics infringed on Apple’s patents is less about the $1.05 billion in damages that Samsung will have to shell out and more about how the ruling will impact the smartphone competitive landscape, one analyst said.
Will Power, an analyst at R.W. Baird, told CNBC’s“Squawk on the Street” that the ruling is “clearly a positive to the degree that it impacts Samsung’s ability to ship into the U.S.”
Apple submitted a court filing on Monday to seek a preliminary ban on U.S. sales of eight Samsung mobile devices, pending the Sept. 20 hearing on the proposed sales injunction against Samsung.