“A jury on Monday finalized Apple’s damages award, leaving the company’s original $119 million figure intact,” Yoni Heisler reports for TUAW. “While Apple at trial asserted five patents, the jury determined that Samsung’s products infringed upon three of them. And from those three, one patent in particular accounted for the vast majority of Apple’s damages award.”
“Patent 5,946,647, otherwise known as the ‘647 patent, was initially filed in 1996 and encapsulates a feature known as ‘Data Tapping,'” Heisler reports. “The patent describes a method by which a device can detect certain types of data — i.e dates, URLs, phone numbers, addresses etc. — and subsequently present users with a list of clickable actions.”
Heisler reports, “Of the $119.6 million awarded to Apple, 85% of that amount ($102 million) resulted from Samsung products infringing upon the ‘647 patent.”
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