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Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M
New submitter charlesj68 writes with news that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has cut Apple's $1.05 billion patent infringement award from Samsung down by $450.5 million. She also said Samsung deserves a new trial over claims related to some of its smartphones.
"Koh rejected Apple’s request to enhance the jury’s award, saying the amount Samsung owed was heavily disputed and the jury wasn’t bound to accept either side’s damages estimate. 'It is not the proper role of the court to second-guess the jury’s factual determination as to the proper amount of compensation,' Koh said in her ruling. Apple is entitled to additional damages for sales of infringing products that weren’t considered by the jury, Koh ruled, saying she intends to calculate the amount beginning on Aug. 25, the day after the jury reached its verdict. As the case has been appealed, Koh said she would delay considering evidence of actual post-verdict sales and pre-judgment interest until the appeals are completed."
It's still a very current event and one that is quite relevant to "the new PC." In case you haven't been paying attention, the notion of the smart phone is still developing quite rapidly. Also, the thing about patents... software patents, F/RAND patents, standards critical patents and all that. This one trial encompasses many hot issues. Also it involves Apple whose new empire no longer cares about the computers it was once known for and now the devices and the media it sells... err... I mean "licenses."
You might be bored already and that's understandable. You have been conditioned like all the rest of the sheeple to only being able to care about something for a short time. How's that conditioning working out for you? Works great for slaves to have no long term memory, no long term vision of the future and only cares about today and what you can buy with that little you have + whatever credit you qualify for.
(sorry, that's a bit rough, but it's rather true of the larger demographic in the US today... they can't care about anything for any amount of time and can't begin to understand why anyone else cares about anything else.)