Apple vs. Samsung patent case jury has reached a verdict

Apple awarded $1 billion in patent case vs. Samsung

In a trial that will have immediate as well as unknown implications for businesses as well as users, the verdict in the Apple vs Samsung patent trial will come in at later this afternoon.



This jury has reached a verdict remarkably fast, faced with sorting through three weeks of testimony and confronted with a complicated jury ballot.
Apple and Samsung together account for 54 percent of the global smartphone market and 90 percent of the profits.


Apple claims Samsung stole key features of its iPhone and iPad -- including the familiar look, with glass screen and rounded corners, and performance features, such as the rubber-band bounce effect at the end of a scroll list and the ability to zoom out by pinching on the screen.
A federal judge has already granted Apple's request to ban U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy ten-point-one tablet, claiming it's too much like the iPad. Apple is also demanding that Samsung pay $2.5 billion dollars for violating its patents.
If Apple runs the table and gets what it wants, it could force competitors to stop selling infringing versions of their products.
Judge Lucy Koh gave the jury 100 pages of instructions on Tuesday. The jury worksheet included 20 pages of questions to be answered. They were provided dozens of mobile phones to examine, as well.
In another case on the other side of the world, a panel of judges in Seoul, South Korea, ruled both companies had infringed on each other.