Jury Finds Apple and Samsung Infringed Each Other's Patents

Posted by timothy on Friday May 2, 2014 @10:58PM from the shouldn't-it-come-out-in-the-wash? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A U.S. jury concluded Friday that Samsung had infringed on two of Apple's patents and that Apple had infringed on one of Samsung's patents. Prior to the trial, the judge had ruled that Samsung had infringed on one other Apple patent. Samsung will receive $158,400 in damages, although they had requested just over $6 million. Apple will receive $119.6 million in damages, although they had requested just over $2 billion and a ban on certain Samsung phones. Some say that a sales ban is unlikely to be approved by the judge. The jury is scheduled to return on Monday to resolve what appears to be a technical mistake in their verdict on one of the patents, and Apple may gain a few hundred thousand dollars in their damages award as a result."

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Apple vs Samsung by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-02 23:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ah yes, jury of peers!
Apple: Wholesome innovating American company.
Samsung: Foreign named company made up of slanty eyed little people who steal ideas and technology from wholesome innovating American company. Besides they have that crazy little fat leader and they send missiles over our allies! Huh? North and South Korea - that's like North and South Carolina. It's the same country!