“Apple will not be allowed a new trial on damages for infringement of its patents by Samsung Electronics, a U.S. court decided Monday,” Loek Essers reports for IDG News Service. “Apple had asked Judge Lucy Koh in the San Jose division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for a retrial over some patents. It made the request after a jury awarded it $119.6 million in damages in May, much less than the $2 billion [for which] it had asked.”
“Apple argued it was unfair for the court to allow the jury to reach a verdict and calculate damages based on ‘false information,’ which prejudiced Apple, according to the order,” Essers reports. “However, Judge Koh concluded that the information was not false.”
MacDailyNews Take: Of course she did.
“Koh also swept aside Apple’s other arguments for a retrial,” Essers reports. “She also denied the majority of Apple’s requests to overrule the jury verdict… However, she granted Apple’s request for supplemental damages. ‘The Court agrees that an award of supplemental damages is necessary here, as there are sales for which the jury did not make an award, because they occurred after the jury reached its verdict,’ Koh said, adding that this would include sales of the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy Note II.”
MacDailyNews Take: Petty cash.
“Late in August, Koh also denied Apple’s request for an injunction on U.S. sales of infringing Samsung products, including the Galaxy S III smartphone because the company failed to convince the court that people were buying Samsung products because of the infringing features,” Essers reports. “Apple will appeal that ruling.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The joke continues, but no matter:
An iPhone with a larger screen option will hurt Samsung immeasurably more than myriad, unending traipses through the legal morass. — MacDailyNews Take, May 2, 2014
Enjoy the show today, Samsung!