“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.”
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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.”
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“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.
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MacDailyNews Take: Boom!
Hooray for justice!
We now await Samsung’s expected appeal with bated breath, but not before a weekend of partying!
Jeez the fandroids are really mad and upped their usual bile and lying to unheard of levels. Take care out there folks 🙂
Good to see this making breaking news in most TV channels, including showing photos of Samsung’s phones. My wife was just commenting that she never really imagined how close the designs were. Now more people will see Samsung for what they really are.
The claims that Apple’s win will discourage innovation, or give Apple unfair competitive advantages is dumbfounding. So now invention, patenting (one of the bases for capitalist competition) is now a bad thing? I propose just the opposit. Inventors and inventions must be protected to further the competition inherent in inventing. If you know your invention can’t be protected, why would anyone be motivated to expend the time and resources to invent ANYTHING.
Samsung’s last stupid statement “…It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices…”
1. BLATENT:
what choice was there with Samsung, if they copied mm by mm, word for word, icon for icon, from hardware to software to packaging to marketing & ads?! that’s ironically called choice?!
everyone blatantly copies Apple, so get over it. it’s cheap. it’s lazy. it’s crying over spilled milk. stop fooling yourselves – naysayers/bitchers.
2. POINT:
if Apple lost this case, there would be no more need for patents/copyrights, only anarchy
3. CHAOS:
even if samsung had better quality than apple, it’s still stealing.
but no matter what bells & whistles or gadgetry samsung adds the user experience will never reach apple’s quality overall, since android is chaotic, fragmentware + much too costly to manufacturers & developers who have to produce 100s of versions & still get screwed deeper when Google or Msft do their own hardware & kill their partners.
4. HYPOCRISY:
plus let’s stop the hypocrisy.
would you not sue if whatever you do is stolen, copied?! come on!
seriously, if all your work would be copied, would you allow it out of benevolence & charity or would you fight for your rights?
5. BUSINESS:
in the end it’s business.
but businesses should survive on creating originality & quality.
in over a decade everyone copies Apple but why should Apple spend on R&D for everyone else to copy? let them do their own R&D!
the only way for others to succeed is to do their own “epic shit”. probably not even compete in apple’s categories. invent something else.
business is business. so before you complain about apple, well, what’s so bad about the verdict? samsung will survive. they just have to pay apple royalties. just as everyone else. what’s the big deal. that is business. it’s always been royalties or licensing, so why can Microsoft, Motorola & everyone else do it but when Apple gets it, it’s unfair?!
Good article re Samesung’s statement
http://beta.fool.com/jaans/2012/08/25/apple-wins-samsung-spins/10488/
LMAO. “BOOM, goes the dynamite!”. Why is that so funny!
American troop should pull out from Samsung-South-Korea and let North Korea do whatever they want with it… That’s should teach The Country of Samsung-South-Korea a lesson.
Is it not google that is in trouble now?
What a relief! As blatant as this case seemed…
Such a shame Steve wasn’t around to see it, hopefully the first of a run of wins and a maybe even a move away from copying(!)
Please judge, triple the award – it was wilful, blatant, slavish and serial.
Congrats Apple!
I love Apple but does this mean nobody is allowed to make anything remotely similar? I have two led torches at home. One by Arlec and one by Tomcat, they’re identical. Why don’t car companies or fridge makers sue eachother?
Because they don’t own the patents. If they did, they would sue for sure.
What a relief! Although this case seem so obvious, blatant, slavish, immoral and serial it seemed that the outcome may not be favourable.
If only Steve jobs could have lived to see the result. Hopefully this is the first in a long line of wins and maybe even a slowdown of the copying taking place.
Please Your Honor,, award triple damages and an import ban ASAP
Pat must be suicidal at hearing this dreadful news. I am so glad that I never owned a Samsung product and never will
Not at all? Matter of fact based on how the American legal community is reacting to this, expect a complete about face from the California Courts as the Jury was ill prepared or equipped to render a judgement in such a complex case, the Foreman’s comments will doom the verdict. He talks too much and clearly has the verbosity to influence others as he apparently own a patent of his own and made it hard for him to not side with Apple.
All this to say, that I probably have more Apple products that most of you on here hence my points about Samsung are not to discredit Apple but rather to draw attention to just how big of a stakeholder Samsung is within Apple. If I ran Apple, I would of found a different way to do this. This said, the Courts will be playing around with this case well into 2015 or so and Samsung will have launched their Galaxy S10 by then.
I enjoy getting Apple Cult members all wet and bothered as it is just a hoot!
Snoop Dog owns a LOT of Samsung products if Snoop Dog owns Apple products as Samsung provides Apple with up to 60% of it’s components throughout all the Apple platforms. Cnet just tested SDD and yes once again Samsung simply crushes everyone else hence why Apple and Samsung will continue to be joined at the hips for some time to come.
Oh by the way Snoop Dog, Samsung components can be found is almost every electronic gadget including cars, appliances (Non Samsung), etc..
Justice! … Where to now Sammy? …
Have you been to the comments section on Huffpost? The Apple haters are buggin out. I’m lovin it!
What about the Holden Barina and the Suzuki Swift? Same car, different badge. Where’s the uproar?