“Apple Inc. is set for a replay of a court fight against Samsung Electronics Co. in which the iPhone maker may seek to recoup more than the $411 million in damages a judge cut from a $1.05 billion jury award in 2012 over patents,” Joel Rosenblatt reports for Bloomberg.
“Jury selection is set for today in San Jose, California, in a retrial over how much Samsung should pay for infringement of Apple’s intellectual property,” Rosenblatt reports. “The original verdict in August 2012, which was the year’s largest in the U.S. at the time, was found by a judge to be flawed because jurors miscalculated the period that the infringement occurred for some of the 28 Samsung devices on trial.”
Rosenblatt reports, “U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh will instruct jurors at the outset of the retrial that the previous nine-member jury found Samsung infringed five valid Apple patents and that their ‘sole job’ is to determine the amount of damages Samsung must pay for the infringement of 13 Samsung products.”
MacDailyNews Take: And, so, contrary to his first sentence, this is not at all a “replay of a court fight against Samsung.”
Rosenblatt reports, “While Apple hasn’t said how much it will seek, this jury’s revision of the damages to properly account for the infringement may result in more than the $410.6 million subtracted from the previous award, according to Carl Howe, an analyst with Yankee Group. ‘The argument at this point is simply about how much Samsung must pay Apple,’ Howe said. ‘In my view, there is no chance that the penalties assessed will be small; the argument is just over whether they will be big or huge.'”
“Apple may call as a witness its marketing chief, Phil Schiller, according to a court filing,” Rosenblatt reports. “The company may also solicit live testimony from Scott Forstall, its former head of mobile-software who left in October 2012 after an executive reorganization by Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook.”
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MacDailyNews Take: May justice someday finally prevail.
How about interest on the damages not yet paid?
This Trial is simply to determine the amount of money SamDung owes Apple …..
Right now the damages are set at $400+ million and Apple wants a billion plus ……
We should see the damages come in somewhere between the two figures …..
But what is more important is the fact SamDung is QUILTY and this trial will set the bar for new trials to follow in which Apple will prevail much quicker and the fines will be stiffer!
it’s a real comforter that Samsung is quilty, maybe won’t have to sew them again.
ahem *sue
🙂
is that a blanket statement?
Good to see you’ve got it covered.
I duvet my best.
That’s comfortering.
Perhaps Apple and Samsung will be able to knit a new relationship after the conclusion of this trial.
Melvin, I ALREADY did that one…jeez, man, grab a mitt and get in the game.
I’m having trouble following this thread.
@ Jim, listen to Bolero, it will help you un-Ravel the thread!
@crab: verdi good, but I think ravel is haydn somewhere bach of the chopin center.
It’s a stitch up gov!!!
“Right now the damages are set at $400+ million and Apple wants a billion plus”
The damages are at 600 million right now (the undisputed amount), with the other 400 million up for review. So even if they go lightly on Samsung it’ll be 800+ million. I’m hoping for a total of 1.2 billion.
Let’s face it..Scott Forstall can NOT be trusted. He should join his brother in M$ ASAP.
Fuck the shameless copycat !!
Although we all know Samscum will appeal and drag this out as long as possible. Let’s face it, the original verdict was in 2012 and we are already near the end of 2013 for the next trial to begin. So an appeal could easily stretch into late 2014. Justice is swift!
The Samsung Patent Infringement Trail is littered with turds. The Trial, however will be littered with $$$ going Aplle’s way.
Nice. Post a comment poking fun at a spelling error, then spell Apple’s wrong.
Coffee!!
lol, it happens…you’re quilty as charged.
Incoming!!! Take cover!!!
lol, stop!
Incoming blanket fire is what I meant!
iOS 7 is a complete rip off of Android and Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface. I hope Apple gets nothing out of this as they have been busy copying Android, Samsung, Windows Phone 8, Palm WebOS and its own jailbreak community. Apple is a pitiless copier and deserves nothing out of this suit.
IF Apple REALLY copied android and samsung, then they would be suing; but alas, they haven’t. Must be more to behind it than you think, and they (google/samsung) know it.
In mid-2012 a billion dollars sounded like a lot.
Now it’s clear that Samsung has improperly gained a lot more than that from this stolen IP. They’ve built the largest smartphone business (by volume) on these stolen inventions.
Anyway, it looks like Apple will get a sizeable chunk of change from Samsung. ‘Bout fricking time.