The federal court jury in the patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Samsung has presented its verdict after deliberating for just 21 hours and 37 minutes following the three week trial. This particular case started with Apple’s lawsuit last April and now the jury’s decision is that Samsung did infringe on Apple’s '381 bounceback patent with all 21 of its products in question. For the '915 patent on pinch-and-zoom, the jury ruled all but three of the devices listed infringed, and more damningly, found that Samsung executives either knew or should have known their products infringed on the listed patents. The jury has also found against Samsung when it comes to Apple’s contours on the back of the iPhone and its home screen GUI. The Galaxy Tab, was found not to have infringed upon Apple’s iPad design patents. The bad news for Samsung continued however, as the jury decided that not only did it willfully infringe on five of the seven Apple patents, but also upheld their validity when it came to utility, design and trade dress.
The amount of the damages against Samsung is in: $1,051,855,000.00 (see below). That’s less than half of the $2.5 billion it was seeking, but still more than enough to put an exclamation point on this victory for the team from Cupertino. The final number is $1,049,343,540, after the judge found an issue with how the jury applied damages for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G LTE and Intercept. The jury also ruled that Apple did not infringe upon Samsung’s patents with the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and has awarded it zero dollars in damage. We’ll have more information for you as it become available.
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Apple used to be a quality firm in all aspects… however…
Apple is becoming a leading player in abusing patents. While other firms do this aswel, Apple is leading with the most claims against other players (and therefor other are forced to claim against apple in return, like google).
I wish they would stop using software patent (since those are the majority of the patent lawsuits worldwide) and trivial patents (like e.g. a button position/size, or icon etc etc you know what i mean) all together (samsung is right: it is a loss for the consumer… big time!). Innovation is long gone these days, since barely no newcomers dare to enter any software related market anymore (before you know it, some trivial or software patent is luring around the corner to smack you in the face…)
The comment sections in pretty much every article, blog post, Facebook share, you name it…about this is kind of funny. You’d think the people were talking about Microsoft the way they’re ripping into Apple.
Sad to see a company that claims to champion “innovation” directly contradict itself. Real innovators don’t hide behind BS patents to win, they do so by actually innovating.
Considering Apple has never really innovated much to begin with, other than make phones a certain shape, I’d say this is a huge loss for all consumers. Apple can rest easy, knowing that it can continue selling overpriced tech garbage to the masses.
I really hope Linux gaming takes off. I’m pretty disgusted with the tech landscape these days.
Nope it won’t
The Jury already stated that was ‘to put out a sign’ so they already went with full power due to it being willfull. They didn’t come up with the number basing on ‘by accident’
If the judge plays up to that too, then it would be rather obvious that there is a clear bias towards ‘patriotism’ or as one would call it in case of tech patents ‘innovation killing idiotism’ as it does not protect anything, it only protects others and causes masses of unneeded court cases every year, leading to wait times for really important cases of 1+ years which is a sick joke as it kinda defeats the purpose of the system
So far the judge in this case has distanced itself clearly from being biased and I doubt thats gonna change.
If I were you I wouldn’t be cheering for those winning patent law suits such as this. If Nintendo were like Apple, the Other Brothers would probably never see the light of day.
This reminds me of an old discussion with Eric5h5 (still don’t know what that 5h5 is all about) about Microsoft’s vs. Apple’s business practices and when we/he/? came to the conclusion that if Apple would be in Microsoft’s position, Apple would be worse.
