A federal judge on Friday significantly cut into Apple’s legal victory in a patent case against Samsung, lopping more than 40% off the damages a jury awarded Apple last year.
Judge Lucy Koh of the federal court in northern California struck $450.5 million from the jury’s award and ordered a new trial on damages for a series of products at issue.
Judge Koh was the first District Court Judge of Korean descent in the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama in January 2010 on the recommendation of California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2010.
In her review of the jury’s decisions, which originally awarded Apple $1.03 billion for patent violations by Samsung in its mobile products, Koh axed those damages by $450 million, to $599 million.
Ian Sherr reports for The Wall Street Journal, “She ordered a new trial to consider the proper amount owned to Apple for the devices for which she reduced the damages. ‘When a Court detects an error in the jury’s damages verdict, the Court has two choices: the Court may order a new trial on damages, or the Court may reduce the award to a supportable amount,’ Judge Koh wrote in her order.”
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Florian Mueller writes for FOSS Patents, “Part of the reason why a new damages determination is needed is that Judge Koh disagreed with the notice date concerning certain patents-in-suit. The jury based its award on the notice date provided by Apple, which Judge Koh now believes was too early because only one of the patents, the rubber-banding patent, had actually been listed in a presentation Apple gave to Samsung in 2010.”
“Whenever it will ultimately be held, the second damages trial over the 14 products with respect to which the jury award has been vacated (Galaxy Prevail, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Galaxy SII AT&T, Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Galaxy Tab, Nexus S 4G, Replenish, and Transform) could result in a figure that is lower or higher than (or, theoretically but unlikely, identical to) the one reached by the jury in August,” Mueller writes. “There will have to be a new jury.”
Mueller writes, “Apple could try to immediately collect the $598.9 million that the judge didn’t adjust, but it’s unlikely that it will physically receive any money before the final resolution of this dispute.”
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Crime pays. Very handsomely. Remember that now, kiddies.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
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She should have tripled the original damages.
Is there no way in American law to avoid such a perversion / miscarriage of justice? Could somebody please explain the situation in the US who has knowledge about it?
As a German I am always surprised what happens in American court rooms. (Not that law and justice is much better over here, but a little less surprising indeed it is.)
Samsung is holding her family hostage.
Time for Apple to sue Lucy Koh? She has been nothing but a brunch since this case started.
In 4 months she’ll be working for Samesung like that other UK judge.
Too bad Apple can’t buy out Samsung then shut them down.
How much of a loss would you expect from buying Samsung out and shutting them down? Spite is not a business strategy.
I think Abrey was only wishfully thinking, like most of the rest of us here.
Ah, the stock price drops by 40% so the settlement drops by 40% ? With enough people trying to pull the giant down, they may succeed and then what?
They will eat themselves
I really think so..
What exactly would pull Apple down, setting aside all the DESPERATE PR attacks on the company for no sane reason?
Yet another reason to be happy Apple has a massive war chest. The war is on, and Apple only THRIVES.
This is a completely ignorant thing to say. Either you are so biased that you THINK Apple hording all of its cash is a good thing, or you have absolutely no idea what stock and investments are all about. Apple sitting on all of its money means they are not sharing dividends to stock holders, those stock holders have noticed this and are selling selling selling… this is why apple has been on a downward slope for 6 months straight.
The fact that buying and selling stock is increasingly a psychological even is well known. Clearly you are emotional about this situation as well as focused on playing the financial game. Oh well.
I’m not focused on emotional incentives or game playing. Now go back and read what I wrote again and see if you can figure out my personal motivation for LIKING the fact that Apple has ensured its future specifically because of its cash horde. Also see if you can figure out how Apple having a future is GREAT for all Apple stock holders.
Also consider this simple formula of human behavior:
SHORT TERM THINKING, LONG TERM DISASTER.
This wrong way of thinking is part of the self-destructive spirit of the age. Apple is NOT thinking this way. Apple is thinking BETTER as well as different. I like that. Maybe you can figure out what’s REALLY going on and like it as well.
Die parasites die. Faster! Faster!
Crime Pays. Especially if you are Samsung.
And this comes after the xeroxing of Passbook as well. In the long run, this is horrible for business. 1 billion was a slap on the wrist, and now this is reduced further?
It’s funny you mention xerox, given the mac os was a stolen product from xerox.
You’re right though; samsung do copy apple – they clearly learnt from Job’s statement ‘good artists copy, great artists steal!’.. so are samsung good artists or great?
Oh fer chrissake you pathetic, bombastic little boy. Go back and learn your history. The Xerox executives ordered the people at Parc to show their work to Steve — and Apple bought the rights to use a number of ideas with a stock deal.
Sure – it was all hunky dory. That whole lawsuit from Xerox against Apple was just part of the negotiations.
Anyway, Jobs said great artists steal, and what do you know, apple iOS now have Androids drop down menu.. copying happens all the time so get off your high horse.
“good artists borrow, great artists steal” …Jobs stole that line from Pablo Picasso who stole it from T.S. Eliot.
Xerox became stock owner of the Apple. Apple did not steal anything. Xerox made huge amount of money when they sold their Apple stock away.
Absolutely correct. Apple bought someone else’s ideas.
That’s been Microsoft’s _only_ plan since day one.
Obama, Boxer, Feinstein, Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate.
Just sayin’.
Korean descent.
Just sayin’, again.
Enjoy the mansion in Pyeongchang-dong, Lucy.
Fsck off, pea-brain.
The US legal system didn’t suddenly become stupid when Obama was elected. 5% of the world’s population, 95% of the world’s lawsuits. And what is it – I totally forget – 80% of the world’s lawyers? 90%? This sick state of affairs has been in effect for a very long time.
And unless your name is Running Bull or Flies with Eagles, you are also of very recent foreign decent. An extra reason for you to stop with the stupid, knee-jerk racism.
Man-o-man. You sure are a wonderful illustration of what is wrong with the right wing. (And I do deliberately write ‘right-wing’ rather than ‘conservative’.)
Just sayin’. 😉
Have a nice depression, Dems. My money is already safely tucked away where you can’t get your grubby hands on it. You won’t be wasting my hard work on your failed government boondoggles. Not gonna happen. Wouldn’t be prudent.
When this country finally hits rock bottom and is ready for Reagan II without a Cold War to win, I’ll consider resuming my investments in U.S. job creation. Until then, have fun with your food stamp nation comprised of bums on “disability.”
The only true “disability” most of you low-information voters have is with your ability to think logically.
Right, because the economy was great under regain… no, wait… S&L failure and subsequent recession of 81 – 82… that’s right… the deepest post WWII economic downturn before the Great Recession of 2007-2009, and who was in office when all of that started… oh yeah.. that’s right GW Bush.
So, you claim we have an issue with logical thinking? Interesting.. very interesting. If you aren’t typing this gibberish from a padded cell, you should be.
*Autocorrect changed my ‘Reagan’ into ‘regain’
America won’t regain its former glory until the next Reagan arrives. Until then, wallow in your welfare state cesspool, low-information voters.
The fact that, rather than address the facts I laid out before you, you instead chose to regurgitate your delusional, ignorant BS sums you and those of your political leaning up pretty well.
Thanks for helping prove my overarching point, you vapid windbag.
“My money is already safely tucked away where you can’t get your grubby hands on it.”
Would you like to expand on that, the IRS might be interested.
Since your Teabagger friends at shutdowns r us are soooo worried about the debt and deficit whenever a Democrat is in the White House, they will doubtless be looking for more revenue.
Of course when a Republican is in office deficits do not matter.
“You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due.”
to Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill
“Would you like to expand on that, the IRS might be interested…”
I figured you for a snitch.
@F14, T16: It’s interesting, though, how survey after survey shows that the states and counties that claim more federal money per capita are the red states. That’s the republican ones. Republicans are the true takers in the real world.
It’s also undisputed by non-partisan economists that the real engine of any economy is the middle class. They are the people who spend money and buy products and thus are the true job creators. Rich people didn’t get rich by employing people to make products for which there was no market. Stimulate the economy by putting the middle class back to work, not by protecting the uber rich from having to pay slightly more than the lowest taxes in history.
Don’t you just hate it when the facts have a liberal bias???
Aaaaaaaaarghh!!!! Nooooo!!!!! Facts!!!! It burns. It burns.
Hey DumDum First…Then…
It’s your gang of Neo-Con-Job 1%er pals doing all the AAPL hating.
∑ = FAILure grades all ’round!
100%. Why would any other rational person be so blatantly indoctrinated and hateful to a company that has but enriched the the world?
Oh, i get it… Because companys are people?
ah, the single minded shill for the repubs is back tossing in any contrary personality within range. As if his avatar wasn’t enough indication of his lack of thoughtful or objective opinions. we’re stuck with yet another tired diatribe. Blah blah blah… Such a waste.
Judge Lucy Koh is a Korean-American… enough said!!
Of course she did. American judge. Korean ethics.
Someone got to her
bingo.
Funny thing with these judges…
“UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by… Samsung!”
Samsung is corrupted company.
“President Lee Myung-bak will give a special pardon to former Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee…”
koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/12/113_58119.html
Thats former president Lee Myeong-bak. The new president who was sworn in a couple of weeks ago is the daughter of the first Korean president Park Cheong-hui, who in reality lead a military dictatorship.
I love how you people rant on an APPLE website using APPLE articles that quote from and APPLE source as PROOF that when Apple got screwed it was proof that the judge got paid off… you guys are dreaming.
Wow. Samsung got off easy. Now that they know that, it’s time to step up the slavish copying.
Note to North Korea Military, it’s time to cross the DMZ and have a nice vacation in Seoul.
Which of the Koreas are you talking about? I need a score card just to keep track of the ranking now.
By the way y’all, she did NOT reduce it (yet). She has merely deferred the decision to a later date following a retrial of the “stuff” in question.
Thus I have withheld my FUB comments. But let’s notice that once again: Judge Koh is the Queen of JUSTICE DEFERRED. That, at least, deserves an epithet. How about we dock her pay until she finishes this never-ending trial? Oh, and then that NEXT trial, besides that NEXT trial.
But that wouldn’t be fair !
Mmmm, nice a new trial, hopefully with a different judge and jury, spinning wheels got to go round but when they stop the “sum could be less than $1 billion, but it could also be more.”
Welcome to…wheel of torture.
Any judge favored by the Obaminaition, Boxer and Feinstein is sure to be a piece of shit. You can’t get any worse.
Except of course the abominable judges appointed by the George W. Bush administration.
∑ = FAILing grades all ’round.
That’s for sure. I long for the days of Bush when the US was a land flowing with milk and honey, unicorns and sugar-plums — and all was fairness and light. Yup, things sure were good in the old days.
Can we have some of those same drugs Seamus?
uh, that’s Dianne FrankenSTEEN.
Perhaps you have never heard of the hacks Scalia and Thomas currently mucking things up in the scotus..
Talk about pieces of shit. Contradictory, party ruling, conflict of interest ignoring corrupt mofos, on the highest court inthe land no less.
What’s do you think about her decision – obviously, her root is Korean- go figure
And your root is….?
One way to look at it……
If damage award is considered to be non-taxable income for Apple and assuming Apple margin’s of 36% , then that equates to about 2.5 Million iPhones. Let’s be conservative and say 3 million.
So with all the copying that Samsung was found to be guilty of, they only benefitted by 3 million of the 60 million that Samsung sold last Q. Or 5% of last Q. Since they continue to benefit Q after Q, the real number is much less than 5%. THAT is basically what Koh is saying.
Just ridiculous in the extreme.
I assume Judge Lucy Koh (the Korean American) is preparing herself to be hired by Samf_ck.
Crime pays. Very handsomely.
Especially when the judges reward, rather then punish, it.
I really can’t see how a different judge could possibly do any worse in this case than Koh. This might go very well for Apple.
W. T. F.
This is the only rumor that was true and it hurts the company like all the rest
Is ‘Judge Lucy’ more qualified than ‘Judge Judy’? What a proverbial circus this whole legal process has become, Samdung steals and is rewarded for its effort.