Jury: Apple should have gone after Google over Android

The relatively low compensation that Apple has been awarded in its patent case against Samsung seems to have a clear reason. According to a jury member, the iPhone manufacturer should sue Google for a number of patent violations.

Mashable reports this after the jury met once again on Monday to make some minor corrections to the awarding of damages. On Friday, Samsung was ordered by a jury to pay damages to Apple for infringing three patents. The compensation amounted to 119.6 million dollars, about 86 million euros. At the same time, Apple must pay Samsung $ 158,400 for infringement of a patent of Samsung. The amounts have not changed after the corrections.

During a conversation with the media, jury chairman Thomas Dunham would have hinted that the verdict should not be seen as an attempt to “make something clear to a company”. If Apple actually thinks that Google is violating patents with its Android operating system, the company should not play this through Samsung, according to the chairman. With this, the jury chairman also seems to indicate that the relatively low amount of compensation, 120 million dollars compared to the 2.2 billion dollars requested by Apple, has a clear reason. Both Samsung and Apple can still appeal.

Although Google was not formally a party to the patent case, the internet giant came up several times. For example, Samsung lawyers tried to demonstrate via e-mails from former Apple CEO Steve Jobs that Google was the real target of Apple. It also emerged that Google has legally assisted Samsung with certain patent issues.