{"id":133005,"date":"2026-08-26T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/133005\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:02:08","slug":"samsung-ordered-to-pay-swatch-us11-6-million-over-copied-smartwatch-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/133005\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung ordered to pay Swatch US$11. 6 million over copied smartwatch apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">The Swiss watchmaker sought about US$170 million from the Korean technology giant<\/p>\n<p>Published Wed, Aug 26, 2026 \u00b7 11:15 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[LONDON] Samsung Electronics was ordered to pay Swatch Group US$11.6 million after a London judge found that it hosted copied displays for luxury brands on its smartwatch unlawfully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The High Court\u2019s trademark ruling, published Wednesday (Aug 26), came after the Swiss watchmaker sought about US$170 million from the Korean technology giant for displaying the Swatch brands that included Breguet, Longines and Omega. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">\u201cUse of the Swatch Group brands on Samsung\u2019s supermarket shelves, downloadable for nothing or for little money, is to my mind very damaging,\u201d Judge Marcus Smith said in the ruling. \u201cThe low price is demeaning of the brands the Swatch Group seek to promulgate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">A previous judgment found Samsung had infringed the Swiss watchmaker\u2019s trademarks by allowing designs that replicated the appearance of Swatch Group watches for digital watch displays on its app store between 2015 and 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Swatch Group carefully curated and promoted its brands over decades, which formed a critical part of their business, the judge said. \u201cIt 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,\u201d Smith said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Samsung and Swatch spokespeople didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comments. BLOOMBERG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swiss watchmaker sought about US$170 million from the Korean technology giant Published Wed, Aug 26, 2026 \u00b7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[127,276,36395],"class_list":["post-133005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-samsung-electronics","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-swatch-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}