By
Bloomberg
Published
August 26, 2026
Samsung Electronics Co. was ordered to pay Swatch Group AG $11.6 million after a London judge found that it hosted copied displays for luxury brands on its smartwatch unlawfully.
Swatch
The High Court’s trademark ruling, published Wednesday, came after the Swiss watchmaker sought about $170 million from the Korean technology giant for displaying the Swatch brands that included Breguet, Longines, and Omega. Samsung argued at trial that the damages weren’t worth more than $301 million.
“Use of the Swatch Group brands on Samsung’s supermarket shelves, downloadable for nothing or for little money, is to my mind very damaging,” Judge Marcus Smith said in the ruling. “The low price is demeaning of the brands the Swatch Group seek to promulgate.”
A previous judgment found Samsung had infringed the Swiss watchmaker’s trademarks by allowing designs that replicated the appearance of Swatch Group watches for digital watch displays on its app store between 2015 and 2019.
Swatch Group carefully curated and promoted its brands over decades, which formed a critical part of their business, the judge said. “It is quite clear that Samsung does not value the marks as such, and considers that they make no real marginal difference to its offering to consumers,” Smith said.
Samsung and Swatch spokespeople didn’t immediately respond to requests for comments.