“Samsung Electronics Co. took a gamble when it appealed a finding it infringed Apple Inc.’s smartphone design patents, and a friendly subsequent ruling from the U.S.’s highest court made it seem like the bet would pay off,” Joel Rosenblatt reports for Bloomberg. “Instead, Apple won an additional $140 million.”
“Seven years after the start of a global patent battle, a jury in a lower court in San Jose, California, delivered a verdict Thursday heavily favoring Apple in a trial that could reshape how companies view the value of patents that protect the shape and design of products,” Rosenblatt reports. “Samsung had appealed the case, and won a 2016 Supreme Court ruling giving it a chance to pare back an earlier award. After that ruling, the basic question for the jury was: Should Samsung have to pay damages based on sales of smartphones in their entirety, or just their components that infringed the iPhone maker’s patents?”
“‘As the saying goes, be careful what you ask for,’ Neel Chatterjee, an intellectual property litigator in Silicon Valley, said of Samsung’s appeal. ‘The jury saw substantial value tied to the design elements of the iPhone, and actually awarded more than Apple previously won,'” Rosenblatt reports. “Now Samsung has to pay $539 million, an increase of $140 million. That makes it a ‘huge loss’ for Samsung, said Michael Risch, a law professor at Villanova University School of Law in Pennsylvania, “and shows the risk it took by continuing to fight.””
“While the verdict isn’t significant for either company’s bottom line, Apple has long maintained there’s a bigger principle at stake. After the 2012 jury sided with Apple, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the lawsuit was about values, and that the company “chose legal action very reluctantly and only after repeatedly asking Samsung to stop copying” its work,” Rosenblatt reports. “Apple said in a statement after the verdict that the case “has always been about more than money.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Samsung, of course, will appeal because the festering chaebol obviously lacks any trace of ethics and morals.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
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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That is a good kick in the back side, however i wish Samsung suffered a much higher financial penalty. Samsung better pay up soon instead of dragging its dirty feet
Nice to see them paying something, but it’s merely a rounding error in Samsung’s ill-begotten smartphone profits.
Not to mention the visibility they gained through their knockoffs…
Hope they have to pay costs on top of that.
POS Samscum got away with Billions. What a joke of a punishment.
It wasn’t about money for Samsung either. They want a trial to go their way for future lawsuits.
Samsung’s strategy is copy and drag out. They play the long game and don’t care. They will simply try to tire you out or, if you’re a smaller company, keep going until they bankrupt you.
The company’s morally bankrupt, in general.
If judge Lucy Koh hadn’t severely limited the scope of the case, the original decision would have more heavily in Apple’s favour. The case was cut from dozens of patents down to 11. Probably about 10% of the original patent offending was ever heard by the jury, basically because judge Koh was too lazy to hear the whole case. From there Samsung has been able to appeal, delay, appeal, delay, Play the long game as others have said. Now Samsung can claim, we only copied a few minor patents, we are being punished on the value of the whole phone, this is not fair, we are the good guys. In reality, the extent of patent offending was never heard. The free for all, of blatant iPhone copying, can be blamed squarely on judge Lucy Koh.
Crime pays : (
ScamScum jerks. Fine should be about $1-5 billion. I don’t know…
I think that if Samsung appealed..again..the award against them might become even higher simply for the annoyance factor of having to hear all this again. Time for them to move on IMO.
Apple’s janitors find $539 million in spare change when they vacuum the couch cushions at Campus 2.
I hope Samsung has to pay all the attorney’s fees on both sides of the case.
The low judgement is mostly due to Korean-leaning U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh.
ScamScum has wrecked its own reputation with consistent and dire acts of self-destruction.
Maybe someday it will get a clue and learn. Meanwhile, I consider them no better than bratty, clumsy children in adult clothing.
What’s the context for the photo Derek? I presume it would be someone that suffered damage from an exploding battery but is it?
It’s a part 2 of my imagined public face of Samsung. Earlier I’d posted Leo G. Carroll in ‘Tarantula’ with is face warped out of shape. This particular face was, I believe, a ‘make-up’ artist demo. I like the stitching threads.
Ah, thanks for that Derek. It’s a pretty gruesome picture that’s for sure. Have a good holiday weekend.
And you! – My posting these ‘face of ScamScum’ pictures was for cruel humor. Sorry to be gruesome.