Legal News

Samsung to Pay Apple $120 Million
Download PDF
1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...

On Friday, a U.S. jury ordered that Samsung Electronics pay Apple $119.6 million to compensate for patent violation. The amount is way lower than the $2 billion Apple originally wanted. This marks a new turn for the Apple-Samsung patent war that has been going on in different courts of the world for the past three years.

Even though, earlier in 2012, jurors had awarded $930 million to Apple for Samsung’s violation of its patents, the verdict was later challenged. Also the sales ban that Apple wanted to be imposed on Samsung phones in the U.S. was rejected by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh.

  
What
Where


The current case includes five Apple patents not included in the 2012 trial. Apple is also trying to ban the sales of several other Samsung phones including the Galaxy S III, and it does not seem that it is going to receive a sales ban this time, going by the amount of damages decided by the jury.

Apple claimed the verdict was a victory and reconfirms, “Samsung willfully stole our ideas and copied our products.â€

The meager damages in the matter have raised questions as to the fruitfulness of patent litigation, as the costs of litigation are hardly less than damages receivable. In an earlier case, where Apple was found guilty of infringing one of Samsung’s patents, the jury awarded Samsung only $158,400 in damages, though the company had asked for $6 million.

Get JD Journal in Your Mail

Subscribe to our FREE daily news alerts and get the latest updates on the most happening events in the legal, business, and celebrity world. You also get your daily dose of humor and entertainment!!




It seems that jurors have become increasingly conscious that whatever be the costs and damages in similar patent litigation involving consumer devices, the costs are ultimately passed on to consumers, and increasing the amounts of damages does little to change the behavior of businesses.

Interestingly, during the trial, Samsung pointed out that some of the features, which Apple claims to own were invented by Google and not by Apple.





 

RELEVANT JOBS

Associate Attorney

USA-PA-Exton

ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY McKenna Snyder LLC, a law firm in Exton, PA has an immediate opening for an ex...

Apply now

Attorney

USA-MI-Sturgis

Qualifications: HaasCaywood is seeking associate attorneys for our Coldwater and Sturgis, Michiga...

Apply now

Attorney

USA-MI-Coldwater

Qualifications: HaasCaywood is seeking associate attorneys for our Coldwater and Sturgis, Michiga...

Apply now

Insurance Defense Trial Attorney/ Senior Counsel

USA-CA-San Francisco

Job description Trial Attorney - Personal Injury Defense Full Job Description Hickey Smith ...

Apply now

BCG FEATURED JOB

Locations:

Keyword:



Search Now

Education Law Attorney

USA-CA-El Segundo

El Segundo office of a BCG Attorney Search Top Ranked Law Firm seeks an education law attorney with ...

Apply Now

Education Law Attorney

USA-CA-Carlsbad

Carlsbad office of a BCG Attorney Search Top Ranked Law Firm seeks an education law attorney with 4-...

Apply Now

Education Law and Public Entity Attorney

USA-CA-El Segundo

El Segundo office of a BCG Attorney Search Top Ranked Law Firm seeks an education law and public ent...

Apply Now

Most Popular

SEARCH IN ARCHIVE

To Top