Jury decides largely in Apple's favor, Samsung hit with $1B damages

24.08.2012
Samsung must pay Apple just over US$1 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets, a California District Court jury decided on Friday.

The verdict ending the closely watched trial is a complex one, involving numerous products and company subsidiaries. But in several instances the jury found that the Korean company's products infringed Apple's patents.

For example, Samsung's Korean parent company infringed Apple's so-called '381 patent in all of the devices at issue in the trial, the jury found. And most of the Samsung devices at issue infringed Apple's '915 patent.

The jury also decided in Apple's favor on an important question -- whether Samsung's infringement was willful. The jury said the infringement was willful for five out of seven Apple patents in the case. That could potentially result in the judge tripling the damages award against Samsung.

Samsung did score at least one victory -- its Galaxy Tabs did not infringe on Apple's '889 design patent, the jury said.

The remainder of the long verdict was still being read out at the time of this report.