Calvin Klein, Paul Smith and Wallpaper back Apple in legal fight with Samsung

Group of design industry professionals say Apple deserves $548m in damages Samsung paid last December for infringing patented iPhone designs

Apple deserved the hundreds of millions of dollars in damages Samsung paid for infringing patented designs of the iPhone, because the product's distinctive look drives people to purchase it, a group of design industry professionals told the US supreme court on Thursday.

Setting up a clash with a number of Silicon Valley companies that have come out on the side of Samsung, more than 100 designers and educators signed on to a new court brief supporting Apple.