Tuesday was not a good day for Samsung. Aside from their legal troubles, the company has ceased production of the Galaxy Note 7 after some user reports in September that their phones caught fire.
The company also released a statement Tuesday calling for global partners to stop the sale of the Galaxy Note 7 after the company tried and failed to find a solution to the problem.
On Sept. 2 the company released a statement saying they had found an issue with the battery and said it would stop the sales of the faulty phone, but customers who already had the phone could get a replacement.
According the Reuters, the recall of 2.5 million phones could cost the company $17 billion.
Ryan Rollofson, who owns a Galaxy S7 and had used Samsung products for the last five years, said that the issue with the Note 7 will not impact his future buying decisions.
"I think that as a company they've shown themselves to be very consumer oriented, so I'm not terribly concerned about their future phones," said Rollofson.
Aside from the issues with the Note 7, Samsung's Supreme Court face off with its main competitor Apple over an ongoing patent lawsuit also started on Tuesday.
After having to pay Apple $548 million for using some of Apple's patents in 2011, the court will decide if Samsung overpaid $399 million of that amount for the patent infringement.
In 2011, Apple sued Samsung claiming the company infringed upon Apple's patents for iPhone's shape and the user interface. Apple said that Samsung used the iPhone's overall design.
"If you're Apple, you would say that it infringes the entire product and [the argument is] therefore, 'Samsung should pay for the entire product,'" said patent expert Bob Wedig, "but Samsung wants to say 'it's just a small, small amount.'"
Samsung's lawyer Kathleen Sullivan said in Tuesday's proceeding that "A single design patent on the portion of the appearance of a phone should not entitle the design-patent holder to all the profit on the entire phone."
If Samsung were to win this case, the decision would influence future technology patent lawsuits, according to Wedig.
"Every phone has within it hundreds if not thousands of patents that apply to that phone," said Wedig. "If you can only get one-one hundredth or one-one thousandths of the value of the phone for the patent, that makes these judgments significantly smaller."
Even though Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 problems could cost them billions, winning this lawsuit could still provide some much-needed relief.
Annenberg Media