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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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May Samsung pay for all its criminal IP theft - SJ should feel happy wherever he is right now.
A thermonuclear payload UP YOUR ASS, Samsung - this is all you deserve.
I think a victory for samsung would be good for competition. I wouldn't mind seeing Apple go into overdrive!
Or good news. All it means is they didn't spend a lot of time on the individual devices. They must have decided them in one go.
Personally, I doubt it went that well for Apple. Determining damages can't be a cut and dry sort of thing. Unless things lined up neatly, there's just too much to go over.
I imagine they went in favor with Samsung, or were arguing so badly with no progress that they realized they should just declare themselves a hung jury and get it over with.
Lol.No. It's just either way it feels like there won't be true competition. I just hate when companies can't fight things on the battlefield and have to litigate instead. I love Samsung. I love Apple. I don't want patents messing with the phones and products I love.
The judge wouldn't let them hang so quickly. She would tell them to keep deliberating.
There are many individual counts, claims and counterclaims. It could be a unilateral verdict, a mixed verdict, or
Both Apple and Samsung had several legacy devices banned. Not their current models though.
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It probably doesn't mean anything more than a group of people who want their lives back on a Friday evening.
So they worked hard and came to a conclusion they all agreed on.
If it were a Tuesday, this would mean something else, but a Friday? Doesn't mean a thing.
...that is to say, we can't read into any of it.
So they worked hard and came to a conclusion they all agreed on.
If it were a Tuesday, this would mean something else, but a Friday? Doesn't mean a thing.
...that is to say, we can't read into any of it.
Just my gut feeling, but I feel like this is good news for Apple. I think it was more likely that at least a few would strongly think Samsung copied, so they would drag out the process. I find it hard to believe that all 9 would issue a completely anti-Apple verdict so quickly. We'll find out soon enough.
Anyways, hurry the F up Koh!
Anyways, hurry the F up Koh!
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Well, Judge Koh said that since they couldn't work out their own problems then it won't be favorable for either. Who knows. I think both companies are gonna stop litigating after this.
Yes. They could rule that both sides or neither side infringed. A "tie" would be a victory for Samsung, though.
Yep, after all the nonsense she had to go through for this she certainly wouldn't let them off the hook in a few days time.
There were many different questions for the jury - so it could be a "split decision" so to speak.