Apple's Request to Triple $1.05B Samsung Damages Denied
South Korean technology giant ruled to have not willingly infringed Apple's patents.
Due to findings that suggested Samsung did not willfully infringe on Apple's patents, judge Lucy Koh has denied the latter's request to triple the $1.05 billion in damages it received back in August, 2012.
"As this is the sum total of Apple's arguments and evidence that Samsung's infringement was willful, the Court cannot conclude that Apple has met its burden to show willfulness by clear and convincing evidence," she said.
Koh believed Samsung when it said that it thought Apple's patents were invalid. The judge, however, refused its request for a new trial. The South Korean technology giant stressed that Jury Foreman Velvin Hogan failed to mention that he was involved in a lawsuit filed against Samsung partner Seagate Technologies. Apple, meanwhile, were denied a permanent ban on its chief competitor's products.
Judge Koh will be presiding over the next major patent trial between Apple and Samsung in 2014.
Software industry: "F--- NO!!!"
I would love to see that company proverbially shot through a chain link fence, ... repeatedly ...
Being istupid is not illegal. ...And it is very iprofitable to have istupid as a iclient.
Some will come and say but w/o Apple there wouldn`t have been ipods/ipads/iphones... well search a bit and all those products were already out there few years before Apple pushed it with candy eye design.
With about half the patents in Apple's lawsuit successfully disputed in various courts and PTOs around the world, I hope Samsung will have better luck having the fine substantially downsized. In the spirit of good sportsmanship, I would aim for at least 3X less.
They already owe part of that money (taxes that was evaded - Why pay anything to the home country when you can rather screw it over while it sinks - Companies that care at its best! /end sarcasm).
I think you need a history lesson... Samsung are the company that ripped off Apple and started the war, not the other way around. That doesn't excuse Apple for what it is doing in the courtrooms, but had Samsung not stole the ideas in the first place I don't think we would be where we are today. Samsung to their credit have taken the lead in terms of innovating, but that doesn't excuse what they did either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeC25BM9E0