Samsung Damages Trimmed; Tab Decision Questionable

The Apple-Samsung jury didn’t leave after it decided the closely watched case Friday. It was asked to reconsider a couple of the hundreds of decisions it made filling out the 20-page verdict form. After Judge Lucy Koh and Samsung’s lawyers looked the form over they found the jury found the Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G LTE didn’t infringe, but awarded damages. On one claim the jury also found Apple’s three utility patents weren’t infringed but that parent company Samsung had induced its subsidiaries to infringe, a verdict that wasn’t possible according to the judge’s jury instructions. Elsewhere Samsung was held to infringe the patents. The jury returned to the jury room and a while later came back with a revised verdict that threw out the inducement and changed total damages from $1,051,855,000 to $1,049,343,540. Apple is going to want a trebling.

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