Jury Finds Largely in Favor of Apple in Apple vs. Samsung Trial, Awards More than $1 Billion in Damages

[skidbubble]

It's bad for everyone, no matter what, but some are too blind to see. Let them celebrate... when they're paying $1000 for the next iPhone, which looks exactly like their current iPhone, the joke will be on them.

Exactly this.

 

[belsokar]

How many other ways are there to implement pinch-to-zoom?

Remember, just because there's only one way to do something, doesn't mean you can't protect it...

 

[cjmillsnun]

Not sure what there is to explain. The total damages awarded to Apple was around $2.4bn. The $1bn (actually $1.5bn) figure some were quoting was just for one device.

Net result = Samsung owe Apple $2.4bn.

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]

samsung is basically bankrupt now

Not by a long shot.

 

[babyj]

I think those amounts after the $1.05 billion were the damages broken down for each device (if you're getting that from The Verge). If that's what you're talking about? Or maybe I did misread.

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]

How many other ways are there to implement pinch-to-zoom?

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.

 

[devilstrider]

samsung is basically bankrupt now

I doubt that.

 

[MacDav]

I figure that Google is intended "evil" that Apple wants to wage war with. And Apple will probably sue them next.

My question is.. what happens when Apple destroys all iPhone look-a-likes, and has a monopoly?

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]

Now for the review by both.

 

[craznar]

Remember, just because there's only one way to do something, doesn't mean you can't protect it...

Unless Apple wants to use it in which case they can use patented technology without permission ...

 

[fahlman]

This is a sad day for innovation.

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.

 

[linkgx1]

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.

 

[KPOM]

Assuming TV doesn't lie to me, it's the jury foreperson.

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.

 

[Timzer]

samsung is basically bankrupt now

Wow, no wonder Apple has such loyal customers.

 

[Melab]

All patents valid across the board.

Crap.

 

[KieranDotW]

Best Regards,
Tim Cook

 

[SuperMatt]

There where phones on the market that did look a lot like Iphone and worked quite similar to the Iphone long before Apple did release it Ericsson, Nokia and not to mention Neonode did a lot of them.

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]

Apple vs. Samsung today.

 

[mklaman]

It was $1.5bn for one device alone, Galaxy Tab I think.

i think you took the total then added the devices that made up that total.

 

[lilo777]

Look at where they are: in South Korea. The asian companies, oddly enough, need to start being truly and fully creative, but copying is in their history. That's what they've done since the end of the Second World War. By the way, our industry would explode if our patents weren't enforceable. This is the whole way our industry has positioned itself -- not so wisely, either: they have all the factories and industrial production, and we're the control booth. All US industry has, as we're currently organized, are the patents and trademarks. I'd gladly change the patents if we brought some manufacturing capabilities back to the U.S.

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]

How did they "tie" in Korea but Apple wins in the US?

 

[Risco]

Then licence

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.

 

[euphlyusUNO]

How many other ways are there to implement pinch-to-zoom?

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!!!

 

[craznar]

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.

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.

 

[KPOM]

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.

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.