Samsung agreed to pay Apple $548 million to Apple after losing a patent dispute that lasted for almost three years. The two companies have been embroiled in a court case since 2011 when Apple accused Samsung that its Galaxy line of smartphone copying its design of the iPhone. The Smartphone industry is highly competitive, Apple and Samsung are leading companies in struggling to be the world’s number one.

The dispute finally came to the conclusion when the two rivals filed a joint statement with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, which said Samsung agrees to complete its $548 million settlement to Apple. Apple initially received damages of $930 million by a jury’s decision in the U.S. District Court in California, which stated that Samsung did infringe on Apple’s design and utility patents.

An appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit addressed the issue of protectable trade dresses and emptied the damages connected to trade dress dilution. However, this is part of a bigger $1 billion payment that Samsung company was ordered to pay in 2012. The amount was reduced when Samsung appealed it and got split into two parts $548 million for the technology patents and $382 million for reportedly copying packaging as well.

The payment in total of $548,176,477 must finalize in a ten day period after Samsung receives Apple’s invoice. However, Samsung stated that it reserves rights to reimbursement, should the verdict change. “Samsung further reserves all rights to reclaim or obtain reimbursement of any judgment amounts paid by Samsung to any entity in the event the partial judgment is reversed, modified, vacated or set aside on appeal,” the OEM underlined.

After the first couple of Galaxy, handsets resembled the iPhones to a high degree, the later models from the South Korean manufacturer took an independent design path. Samsung has agreed to pay the initial $548 million to Apple within 10 days of receiving an invoice, just four months before the case’s fifth anniversary. The second set of damages will be decided on by a jury in 2016.