A jury awarded Apple $ 1 billion in 2012, finding that Samsung had used Apple's patented tap - to - zoom technology, but the court subsequently reduced the damages.
Not exact matches
On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, a federal
jury in Eastern District of Texas
awarded VirnetX Holding Corp. (VHC) with a $ 502.6 million verdict against
Apple Inc. finding that
Apple was...
The impact of the court's shift in the infringement analysis was evident in December 2013, when a
jury in San Jose, California,
awarded $ 290 million to
Apple Inc..
Simply put, Judge Koh saw no indication that the
jury did not consider all of the damages
Apple suffered when it determined, on a per - product basis, its damages
award.
At the end of the tort trial, the
jury also
awarded the Plaintiff damages under these categories, but lumped them all together so that it was impossible to determine, on an «
apples to
apples» basis, how much should be deducted from each category.
Also, which
Apple's motion does not say, Samsung's own reverse - engineering of the
jury award does not identify any correlation between the disgorgement
award and the number of design patents deemed infringed.
Just days before the US
jury decision in August, a court in Korea ruled that both
Apple and Samsung had infringed each other's patents, but
awarded only nominal damages because there was no possibility any consumers could have confused one company's products for the other's.
Apple's long - running complaint that Samsung infringed its design patent for the iPhone originally went
Apple's way with a
jury award of $ 399 million in damages.
The biggest deal here, by far, is
Apple's loss on willful infringement, where if the
jury's finding of willfulness was upheld and taken to its limit, it could have resulted in $ 3 billion in damages
awarded to
Apple.
On those, the
jury awarded the same 100 % of
Apple's claimed lost profits and reasonably royalties plus the exact average of the parties» calculations of total infringer's profits (61.4 % of
Apple's expert's number because even Samsung didn't argue that there were no profits).
A Texas
jury decision to
award damages of $ 533 million against
Apple for infringing three patents owned by NPE Smartflash Technologies has rightly attracted a lot of headlines.
Still, patent trolls remain a major thorn in the side for tech companies, as evidenced by a $ 625 million verdict a Texas
jury awarded against
Apple last month.
A
jury then
awarded $ 399 million in damages to
Apple, which amounted to the whole sum of Samsung's profits on the phones it sold infringing these patents.
Last year, a U.S. federal
jury in California ruled that Samsung violated some of
Apple's patents and
awarded the company based in Cupertino, Calif., damages of nearly $ 1 billion.
A
jury in 2012
awarded US$ 1 billion to
Apple, finding that Samsung had used some of
Apple's tap - to - zoom technology.
A
jury agreed with that assessment and
awarded Apple $ 1.05 billion, a figure that was later trimmed to $ 939.8 million after the judge pointed out errors in the way the
jury did its math.