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Jury Finds Largely in Favor of Apple in Apple vs. Samsung Trial, Awards More than $1 Billion in Damages
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Remember, just because there's only one way to do something, doesn't mean you can't protect it...
cjmillsnun
macrumors 68020
errr no
from the verge
4:08:02 PM PDT
Transform: $954,060
4:07:51 PM PDT
Replenish: $3,350,256
4:07:40 PM PDT
$53,123,612 for the Mesmerize
4:07:30 PM PDT
Going through the damages for each phone. More than $57 million for the Prevail. Infused 4G: $44,792,974
http://live.theverge.com/apple-samsung-verdict-live/
rjohnstone
macrumors 68040
It was $1.5bn for one device alone, Galaxy Tab I think.
Got the figures from CNET.
Though the figures on The Verge appear to make more sense.
SuperMatt
Suspended
Maybe none. Why do other companies need to copy this feature though? Can't they have a zoom button, or a slider, or something? Why copy "pinch to zoom" instead of coming up with something else? That's the point here. Apple invented a lot of stuff that wasn't being used by anybody else when they released the iPhone. Samsung didn't have anything like this before the iPhone, but all their phones used it after the iPhone was announced.
MacDav
macrumors 65816
Windows mobile phones are pretty original so, Microsoft will rise again, and call Apple out, and then we'll have "Clash of the Titans" 😉 or maybe Godzilla will return and destroy the planet 😱
eagandale4114
macrumors 65816
Unless Apple wants to use it in which case they can use patented technology without permission ...
This is great day for innovation. The desire and cost to innovate is lost when your innovations are not protected from being stolen. Why innovate when you can copy.
Apple just opened a can of worms.And the sleeping giant. If they have Google, Samsung, HTC, LG and several others gunning after them...they just might regret this.
I was the foreperson on a trial once. I handed the form to the judge, who read it, and then handed it to the clerk who announced it. That was in a state court in Illinois.
KieranDotW
macrumors 6502a
SuperMatt
Suspended
OK, show me a link to touch-screen phones that did all the things patented by Apple before the iPhone. The scrolling patent, pinch-to-zoom, etc...
Compile 'em all
macrumors 601
Another overexcited and underinformed Apple fan. Samsung has order of magnitude more patents than Apple. Not a single court outside US has awarded anything to Apple in its patent war against Android (and Nokia to that matter) so far.
Orange Furball
macrumors 65816
Risco
macrumors 68000
Exactly, this does not stop innovation. What it does mean, that in order to use something you have to pay for it! This does not stop others inventing something that Apple likes and they then have to licence.
Well in my opinion, just implementing pinch to zoom flat out copying. Samsung saw pinch to zoom and like others said "Oh... that's awesome", but the difference is Samsung later said "Let's go and copy that" and other stuff too!!!
Yes - but we are not talking about innovations here.
We are effectively patenting pressing CMD-C or scrolling your mouse wheel.
What we are saying here to aspiring software developers is ... GIVE UP NOW, you can't afford the millions of dollars involved in writing software.
They were already gunning for Apple. This verdict gives them some leverage. What's telling is that Apple didn't lose on a single of Samsung's counterclaims.