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Samsung Ordered to Pay Apple $539 Million in iPhone Design Patent Retrial
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If they have patents for it, yea sure. What iPhone's are blatant copies of Samsung designs though? I feel like both companies are fairly differentiated today when it comes to hardware design.
Good luck with that. "He who has the Gold makes the Rules." Ain't changing in our lifetime. I'd suggest acquiring more gold.
They is copying and down right copying, Samsung when you look at the phone down right coped.
No one has an issue with a little bit of copying, as long as they not trying to make it look like the thing they are copying but using it as inspiration.
Popcorn? I thought that was reserved for entertainment. These legal cases are teeeeeedious.
Really? You missed the bold "SAMSUNG" logo in the front? rectangular/oval button on samsung vs circular buttons on iphone are same to you?
This is a shame really. Apple didn't win their case for "innovating" rounded rectangular corner anywhere on earth. Only in USA, only in their native California. If anything, this case should have been tried at some international court. As pointed out by others earlier, even USPTO invalidated some patents... Not informing the court of the USPTO reversal is clearly sneaky.
Still do? That's funny, then Samsung must have a deep internal mole at Apple because they are coming out with things years ahead of Apple so it is quite a feat to steal that stuff so early! This place is truly funny sometimes.
Samsung consented to a jury trial and did not insist on a bench trial. They have gone through several trials and appeals with this outcome. Even if you agree the Supreme court ruled in their favor, it occurred afterward to the whole series of events and the law and precedent as it stood then.article said:
Furthermore this is for two years 2010-2011. They have been making similar devices in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.
If you take the $539m and multiply it by 3.5 and add 25% for increased device sales, which is conservative, that’s $2358m. As of today, plus going forward.
Funnily enough I didn’t miss the logo, or the home button, and I could also see that the icon layout was very similar, but it obviously wasn’t an iPhone. Sorry, I didn’t think I’d have to explain this.
But at first glance, the shape and design (the chrome effect band around the front of the device), the aforementioned icons and layout were enough to make me think, “Jeez, this is basically a copy of the iPhone”.
*Of course* Samsung ripped off the idea. It was egregious theft, a blatant copy and this legal war just prolonged the inevitable.
Well, I’d go for WIPO rather than the WTO or UN, but other than, I agree with you.
And then turn around and use that money to pay the infringements that they 'allegedly' violated...the cycle continues.
And the pencil was the forefather of the stylus used with the Treo. /s
These where nothing like the first iPhone except that you could make a call.
One mans inspiration is another mans theft. Apple have always stolen ideas from other companies.
I wonder how much Apple has had to pay total for all the patents they have infringed upon.
So you're telling everyone here that you cannot tell these 2 phones apart? really?
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To start with, Samsung should sue Apple for copying the phablet and making their phones finally usable. Here's my upgrade in 2012 from a tiny tic tac box with broken Safari rendering browser to a Galaxy Note 2 which is still perfectly usable to this day due to future proofing with 2GB DRAM, AMOLED, Wacom precision pen input, background and split screen multitasking, etc.
No no no, you are forg thing my friend, Samsung has a time machine. It literally travel forward in time and then steals Apples ideas and designs....
U fortunately a lot of people are pretty naive about what went before Apple, and only see what they are told, rather then what actually existed, bloody oblongs with round corners and black faces on phones existed that’s for sure!
I dont think a company can sue based on size. If that were the case all 55 inch tv manufacturers would be suing each other in a free for all.
Buts that is just my humble opinion.
That's all well and good, but again, as I care a lot about color (a photographer), I much prefer the LCD display in my 6+ over the OLED display in my iPhone X.
Curious...do you happen to have an iPhone X?
