“The jury has reached a verdict in the landmark trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. over which company invented signature features of their popular smartphones and tablets, or whether they copied each other’s innovations,” Jessica E. Vascellaro reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“The California jury found that Samsung smartphones and devices infringed on at least three Apple patents, including patents relating to touch-screen screen features such as multitouch gestures and zooming,” Vascellaro reports. “The jury also found that Samsung infringed on an Apple design patent. The verdict, which includes patent claims by Samsung against Apple, was still being read in court.”
Vascellaro reports, “The jury informed Judge Lucy Koh Friday afternoon that it had reached a verdict after about 22 hours of deliberation spanning three days—a quick decision for such a complex case.”
MacDailyNews Take: Blatantly obvious infringement helps seepd things along, dontcha know.
Vascellaro reports, “The verdict ends a nearly month-long trial that pitted two of the world’s largest and most recognizable companies—and their high-priced legal teams. While the ruling won’t affect any of the companies’ latest products, it could shape how smartphones and tablets are designed and the fortunes of companies that make them.”
Read more in the full article here.
Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD, “In at least some cases, the infringement was found to be willful, which could lead the judge to raise the amount of damages awarded to Apple.”
“It wasn’t a clean sweep as the seven man, two woman jury did find in Samsung’s favor on some patents as to a handful of the 20-something phones and tablets that Apple had accused Samsung of infringing. However, the jury found in Apple’s favor on a number of Samsung’s most popular phones,” Fried reports. “The jury has yet to announce its decision on Samsung’s countersuit.”
Read more in the full article here.
“The jury also awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages,” Josh Lowensohn reports for CNET. “Apple had originally sought $2.75 billion in damages, and though it wasn’t unanimous on all counts, the verdict was overwhelmingly in Apple’s favor. Samsung, which asked for $421 million in its countersuit, did not receive a nickel.”
Apple’s statement: We are grateful to the jury for their service and for investing the time to listen to our story and we were thrilled to be able to finally tell it. The mountain of evidence presented during the trail showed that Samsung’s copying went far deeper than even we knew. The lawsuits between Apple and Samsung were about much more than patents or money. They were about values. At Apple, we value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy. We applaud the court for finding Samsung’s behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Boom!
Hooray for justice!
We now await Samsung’s expected appeal with bated breath, but not before a weekend of partying!
If I recall correctly, there was supposed to be a ban on some of Samsung’s products, which was the outcome of a previous legal matter, but Samsung managed to get that ban stayed pending the outcome of this trial. I wonder what will happen to that ban now. Does it go into effect immediately?
Round One – Apple
I was in Korea recently and talked to quite a few local Koreans about this case. Virtually everyone there I talked to agreed that Samsung copied Apple.
Same here. They’re sick of all the copying by these large companies which just jeopardises the image of their rich culture.
Koreans are as, if not more, hard working and creative as people in other countries, however companies like Samsung force them to focus all their energy into beating existing products on feature lists and ticking more boxes – instead of making products that are actually different or better to use.
I guess companies that have always been very well rewarded for copying just can’t help themselves.
At 9:18 pm only 104 comments?
This was Friday, some of us do have a night live. Beside I heard the about Apple victory around 7pm and gave me more of an excuse to go out and celabrate. I quickly made a comment and want out to party.
Fuck! Yes!
Well deserved win for Apple.
엉덩이 삼성에 가져가!
Special Korean message for Samdung lovers!
Fandroids are going absolute apeshit in the forums.
Haha! If you read some of their dribble, it’s sad to see humanity get so retarded.
I really don’t understand their logic, but I truly enjoy reading their comments.
Meanwhile across the pond, Apple UK must post on its website that Samsung didn’t copy the iPad. The UK is the new Bizarro World!
That decision was appealed. I’m not sure if it’ll actually go forward.
Was Samsung found guilty of copying the iPad in this case?
Most of what I’ve read seems to say it wasn’t found guilty.
Apple should now copy Shamsung’s dishwashers, refrigerators, cameras, microwaves, washing machines, and vacuums.
Only problem is Apple wouldn’t be copying Samsung, they would be ripping off whoever Samsung copied their appliance designs from! 😉
Boom! Samsung now what!! Haha
Merry Life everybody… I hear the penalty is $1 billion.
Andy Inhatko wrote this (what happened to him?)-
“Friday’s verdict doesn’t feel like justice. It feels like the day when Apple lost a hunk of its public persona as sweet hippies motivated by excellence and freedom, who win by making the best products.”
Whaat?…..
That’s some real RDF-gone-evil right there.
But I think the guy was trying sooo hard to find an angle for the story that he trampled over himself writing it.
For one thing, Steve and Woz weren’t hippies. I mostly like what Inhatko writes, but like gkmac says, he was just trying to hard to find a unique angle to Apple’s huge win.
Andy Inhatko is so far out in left field that he always forgets what the real point is.
If I want to listen to someone babbling on, I have my wife for that. 😉
Samsung lost something today they’ll never regain – their reputation.
You have to have a reputation in order to lose a reputation.
My 2 cents.
This makes it official. Big difference.
Google is next… destroy this Android please… or more money. Pull out Google search from iOS too. Make them cry.
Well, finally Ep 4 “A New Hope” has end, and for sure we will see Ep 5 ” The Empire ( Samsung) strikes back” and say :”Apple, I am your father!” (I supply you with all your parts) but we all knows how it will still ends, the Jedi(Apple) will return, and maybe, just maybe, Samsung will throw down Google to the drain, like how Vader throw the Emperor down.
Haha, sorry, I am just a crazy Starwar fan
This is just so sweet. After all the years of supporting the underdog, I’m just ecstatic that Apple and Steve and Tim and all the team prevailed
Samsung Is finally fucked!!
Here in Finland, I couldn’t have woken up to better news today. I stared at the headline for a second and said aloud: “They won, they actually truly won this case?” Then I went to work and couldn’t help but smile every time I thought about it.
The dragon is, if not slayed to death, at least heavily beaten up. Can’t wait for the keynote on my birthday next! =D
Me tooooooooooo!
Looks like the jury ruled for Samsung on the iPad infringement claim.
I guess that makes it something like Apple-15 Dog Eaters-1
It’s not about race Ahole
Has nothing to do with race. It’s about a culture that thinks it’s ok to eat magnificent companion animals like dogs. Likely same cultural values that think it’s Ok to blatantly ripoff Apple’s Blood Sweat and Tears.
BTW the Swiss regularly eat dogs too. They are pond scum for doing it and their society /culture for allowing it..
Qhat samedung should do now, if they are clever and have a brain in the r and d dept is try to design their own products and not copy others innovations.
But I suspect that they will just carry on trying to copy apple.
What apple needs to do is be totally relentless on Suing these scum that copy. Don’t give in an inch.
One day these idiots will learn to design their own products and not ripoff companies who do actually know what their doing.
Next stop for apple – is google and the android OS!
The only thing sweeter would have been if Apple had a press release immediately following the verdict stating that Samsung is no longer a parts supplier for them.
Amen. Give it time…
copy cat does not pay!!! — would be much cheaper for Samsung to take Apple’s licensing offer which was something like 200 million dollars. Now, this win is just a start. . expect more wins for Apple against Samsung in many other countries. More important than money is Samsung’s reputation of being the copy cat!
Samsung did NOT have to lower themselves to thievery. There were other touchscreen adaptable OS’s that Samsung could have used. There used to be a product from Sharp, called that Zaurus. It had a great mobile OS that could have been adapted for touchscreen use. They could have also bought WebOS when they were soliciting bids. When Apple announced the iPhone, Red alerts went off at Samsung’s Copier Dept. This is vindication for what happened in the Apple, V Microsoft case. “Look and feel” in this case is called “”Trade dress” Apple was wrong to not push for a jury trial back in 1994 against Microsoft.
Justice has been done. I love America!
And Samsung: You have been soooo screwed! Told ya. 😆