Apple is not short of money: instead, it seeks to ban the sale of Samsung mobile products in the US.

Beijing, August 8th - According to foreign media reports, after receiving a reprieve from the US government's ban on sales of the iPhone 4 in the United States last week, Apple is now retaliating by striving to drive Samsung's mobile products out of the U.S. market. For Apple, forcing Samsung to alter its product design or cease selling smartphones and tablets in the U.S. market is more important than obtaining compensation.

On Friday, Apple will request an appeals court in the U.S. to issue an injunction banning certain Samsung products from being sold in the American market. A Californian jury had previously found that these Samsung products infringed upon the design and functionality patents of the iPhone. Subsequently, a U.S. trade agency will also rule on whether to ban the importation of certain Samsung products based on other patent infringement claims made by Apple.

Last year, Samsung was ordered to pay Apple $1.05 billion in patent damages. However, this amount is less than two weeks' worth of iPhone sales revenue for Apple and less than one-seventh of Samsung’s net profit in the second quarter of this year.

Ray Van Dyke, a patent technology lawyer at the Van Dyke Firm in Washington, said: "Sometimes, just penalizing with fines isn't enough. For both Apple and Samsung, it's about who can make the other side back down."