Aug. 27, 2014 4:46 p.m. ET
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request from Apple Inc. AAPL +1.23% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $102.13 +1.24 +1.23% Aug. 27, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 46.54M AFTER HOURS $102.10 -0.03 -0.03% Aug. 27, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5.83M P/E Ratio 16.39 Market Cap $604.11 Billion Dividend Yield 1.84% Rev. per Employee $2,214,380 08/27/14 Alibaba's Results Improve Ahea... 08/27/14 Judge Denies Apple Request for... 08/27/14 Judge Denies Apple Request to ... More quote details and news » to bar Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE +0.98% Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. S. Korea: KRX KRW1,242,000 +12,000 +0.98% Aug. 28, 2014 3:00 pm Volume (Delayed 20m) : 191,394 P/E Ratio 6.47 Market Cap KRW202,034.06 Billion Dividend Yield 0.08% Rev. per Employee N/A 08/27/14 Judge Denies Apple Request to ... 08/27/14 Asian Shares Up; Tech Stocks H... 08/27/14 Tower Bersama, Protelindo in R... More quote details and news » from selling smartphones and tablets in the U.S. that infringe on Apple patents.
Apple had sought a permanent injunction against certain Samsung products after a judge and jury found in May that the Korean firm had infringed on three of its patents in a high-profile intellectual property dispute. The jury awarded Apple nearly $120 million in damages—a fraction of the $2.2 billion that it was seeking.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., said Apple hadn't "satisfied its burden of demonstrating irreparable harm and linking that harm to Samsung's exploitation of any of Apple's three infringed patents." An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on the ruling.
"We welcome today's ruling," a Samsung spokesman said. "We remain committed to providing American consumers with a wide choice of innovative products."
The ruling isn't a surprise because Apple has struggled to win injunctions against Samsung during its series of high-profile patent disputes between the companies.
Apple has won two verdicts from federal juries in California that Samsung had infringed its patents on the iPhone and iPad. The Korean company has been ordered to pay damages totaling more than $1 billion from the two trials. Samsung has said it would appeal both decisions.
Apple has yet to collect a dime from either case and it hasn't gotten what it really wanted: a far-reaching injunction on sales of certain Samsung phones and tablets. Apple recently dropped its appeal of a ruling denying it an injunction against nearly two dozen Samsung products from the first trial, in 2013.
The inability to score an injunction has eliminated one of the main ways for Apple to inflict pain on Samsung. The damages, while sizable, won't significantly hurt Samsung, which holds about $60 billion in cash.
The acrimonious feud between the two companies may be coming to a close. Earlier this month, the two sides agreed to dismiss all patent disputes between them in courts outside the U.S. The agreement covered disputes in eight countries. However, the two companies said they would continue to push ahead with the cases in the U.S.
Write to Daisuke Wakabayashi at Daisuke.Wakabayashi@wsj.com
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