Apple vs Samsung Trial Jury Releases Their Final Verdict [Update]

14 years ago

According to the Wall Street Journal, an Apple-Samsung verdict has been reached by the 9-person jury in California court. The jury started their deliberations on Wednesday and had to answer over 600 questions on the verdict form.

Update: The jury deliberated for 21 hours and 37 minutes according to the WSJ. The verdict by the jury as follows via the live blog at CNET.

Jury finds Samsung infringement of Apple utility, design patents for some (though not all) products
Jury finds willful infringement on 5 of 6 patents.
Jury upholds Apple utility, design patents
Jury upholds Apple trade dress ‘983
Jury finds Samsung “diluted” Apple’s registered iPhone, iPhone 3 and “Combination iPhone” trade dress on some products, not on others
No Apple infringement of Samsung utility patents

Damages owed by Samsung:
$1,049,343,540 billion in TOTAL damages assessed to Samsung
No damages against Apple from Samsung’s countersuit

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