{"id":1031690,"date":"2026-08-28T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031690"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:43:51","slug":"samsung-ordered-to-pay-swatch-11-6-million-over-smartwatch-brand-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/samsung-ordered-to-pay-swatch-11-6-million-over-smartwatch-brand-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung ordered to pay Swatch $11.6 million over smartwatch brand apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics was ordered to pay Swatch Group AG $11.6 million for failing to prevent apps that mimicked the Swiss company\u2019s luxury brands such as Breguet, Longines and Omega on its own smartwatch displays. <\/p>\n<p>The London High Court\u2019s ruling, published on Wednesday, came after the Swiss watchmaker sought about $170 million from the Korean firm for displaying the Swatch brands. <\/p>\n<p>Samsung argued that the damages weren\u2019t worth more than about $300. \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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics was ordered to pay Swatch Group AG $11.6 million for failing to prevent apps that mimicked the Swiss company\u2019s luxury brands such as Breguet, Longines and Omega on its own smartwatch displays. The London High Court\u2019s ruling, published on Wednesday, came after the Swiss watchmaker sought about $170 million from the Korean firm for displaying the Swatch brands. Samsung argued that the damages weren\u2019t worth more than about $300. \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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031714,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031690\/revisions\/1031714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}