In the detail, this US Court of Appeal contained all eleven judges on the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., and the ruling was 8 to 3 in favor of retaining the existing sums. The panel of judges also ruled that the previous Court of Appeal should not have overturned the original verdict as delivered by a panel of three judges back in February. The latest panel stated that the earlier appeal court judges did not follow U.S. Supreme Court limits of the case and examined evidence outside of the scope. Following Friday's ruling, Samsung has issued a lengthy statement criticizing Apple's patent lawsuit. Samsung is considering bringing the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is already set to hear a different Apple versus Samsung patent infringement case in the coming days. Samsung's statement blasts the current patent law by stating that the "design patent law that has been interpreted is not in line with modern times because it discourages competition, innovation and consumer choice."