Apple v. Samsung Patent Suit Results Ping!
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Posted on 05/03/2014 2:03:44 AM PDT by Swordmaker
“Apple Inc., after seeking $2 billion in damages, won only $120 million from Samsung Electronics Co. in a jury trial over smartphone technology,” Joel Rosenblatt reports for Bloomberg. “The verdict sets the stage for the iPhone maker to seek a judge’s order banning U.S. sales of its rival’s devices that infringed its patents. The jury also found that Apple infringed one Samsung patent, awarding it $158,000 in damages.”
“‘It is hard to view this outcome as much of a victory for Apple,’ Brian Love, an assistant professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, said in an e-mail. ‘This amount is less than 10 percent of the amount Apple requested and probably doesn’t surpass by too much the amount Apple spent litigating this case,’” Rosenblatt reports. “Jurors found that Samsung infringed two of the four Apple patents it considered in a case, which revolved around whether the maker of Galaxy phones used features in Google Inc.’s Android operating system that copied the iPhone maker’s technology. A finding that Samsung infringed the auto-correction patent was issued by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh before the trial.
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Correct me if I’m wrong....but Apple likely expended at least a hundred million bucks in legal costs, lawyers, experts, etc....to get to this point. So of the $120 million in fines....they really make just $20 million off this effort?
Correct me if I’m wrong....but Apple likely expended at least a hundred million bucks in legal costs, lawyers, experts, etc....to get to this point. So of the $120 million in fines....they really make just $20 million off this effort?
Now maybe they can go away and realize that you can’t sue your way to a monopoly,
And maybe Android companies can team up and start litigating this patent troll too.
You're not wrong. Apple would have appreciated the full $2.2 Billion plus a finding of willfully infringing, which would have trebled the award, but face it, does Apple really need the money? What Apple wants is the verdict. . . and later an injunction. . . Pointless as that will be against antique phones and tablets no longer on the market.
LOL!...all the while Samsung supplies Apple with parts to build their stuff...like displays. Sounds like a family quarrel.
I thought you were a conservative. Isn't FreeRepublic a Conservative site? Doesn't FR uphold the Constitution of the United States of America? Yes, it does. Why not trying reading it, VanDeKoik. Specifically, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8:
"Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.". . . Exclusive right" IS a monopoly! VanDeKoik, and Patent law requires the patent holder to defend his patent or lose it. I guess you DON'T follow the constitution, and prefer to support a foreign company. Gotcha.
Apple gets some parts from Samsung. Displays come from multiple sources including LG, Sony, and others. The fact that Samsung supplies Apple allows them inside information for infringement. They've used that.
Very funny, creative ad.
Appeal? (pun intended)
So a company designs a system and patents it. Then someone steals that patent and gets away with it. Sounds like Mexico or China...not America.
Sounds appealing. . .
How on earth does any legal issue rack up $100 million??? 300 high-priced lawyers over several years combined with “court costs?”
Oh please.
You might just be the only person that doesn’t know that Apple engaged in this petty protection of frivolousness in hopes of setting a precedent so they could litigate all of their competitors out of business.
Jobs said it himself.
And as far as I’m concerned, since Apple is funneling money into the pockets of Democrats and gay marriage advocates, I couldn’t care less about protecting their “right” to slide to unlock and rounded corners. Wooooo, what a innovation worthy of over a billion dollars!
But hey I’ve said many time if you want to see what conservatives sound like when they act like leftists, then just find an Apple topic. They will go to the mat to religiously defend a company that finances the same people that are trying to destroy them. Gotcha.
As if Apple is some American as apple pie company. Unless Foxcomm is located in Indiana and I just kept misreading it as China.
Appeal? (pun intended)
They will iPpeal the verdict.
Sorry Swordmaker.
All of Free Republic does not agree with your personal assertion that a trademark system so out of control that it awards ownership of rectangles with rounded corners to iPple equates to conservatism.
Your problem here is that too many Freepers actually followed this and read the damned suit.
Maybe if iPple wanted a monopoly they should have tried making a better product at a better price than their competitors. Instead of patent trolling.
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