“U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California has entered a $548 million judgment for Apple Inc. in its smartphone “trial of the century” against Samsung,” Scott Graham reports for The Recorder.
“Acting at the explicit direction of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Koh ordered Samsung Electronics Co. to pay $548,176,477 for 18 Samsung mobile devices that infringe five Apple design and utility patents,” Graham reports. “The order appears to create a virtual lock—absent certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court—that Apple will collect at least half of its landmark 2012 jury award. The decision came one day after the Federal Circuit endorsed a limited injunction on Samsung that loosens the eBay standard for competitor cases and will give Apple more bragging rights to smartphone innovation.”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple doesn’t need any more “bragging rights.” Apple invented and defined the modern smartphone.
“Samsung said last week that the partial judgment is unauthorized by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and appealed Monday to the Federal Circuit. The company, which is being indemnified by its Android partner, Google, in the litigation also has until November to petition for Supreme Court review of the Federal Circuit’s damages decision,” Graham reports. “Meanwhile, Koh has set a week-long trial starting in March of next year to recalculate damages on five additional Samsung products that were found both to infringe Apple’s patents and dilute its trade dress. Apple also plans to ask for supplemental damages and prejudgment interest for all 23 infringing products.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Pony up, slavish copier. You should be paying at least 10X that, for all you lying, cheating bastages have stolen.
Yet, still, despite all the rampant theft, Apple has all of the good customers anyway: Apple’s iPhone owns 92% of smartphone industry’s profits
It’s best not to mess with karma. — Steve Jobs
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
For good measure, here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
And, here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
People who buy Android phones and tablets reward thieves.
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US appeals court reverses part of Apple’s $930 million verdict vs. Samsung – May 18, 2015
Before iPhone, Google’s plan was a Java button phone, Android docs reveal – April 14, 2014
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