Jury: Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for patent infringement

The jury has unanimously decided in a US patent case between Apple and Samsung that Samsung must pay a total of 539 million dollars to Apple, for patent infringement with several smartphones.

Samsung must pay $533 million for infringing three Apple design patents and another $5 million for disregarding two functional patents. That is the unanimous verdict of the jury in a case pending before the US District Court in San Jose.

A case in 2012 already determined that Samsung infringed the patents, with several smartphones that the Korean company sold in the US in 2010 and 2011. In the aftermath, it had to be determined what compensation Samsung had to pay.

Samsung claimed that $28 million in damages for the infringement of the three design patents and $5.3 million for the infringement of the functional patents was sufficient because only the infringing components had to be considered. Apple demanded $1.07 billion in damages because the sales value of the entire smartphone had to apply to determine the amount of damage.

The jury partly agreed with Samsung’s claims and partly with Apple’s. As for the design of a black front of smartphones with rounded corners, according to the jury, only the screen and associated electronics should be looked at in terms of damage. In the grid of colored icons described in another patent, the entire smartphone must be involved in terms of compensation, according to the judgment according to CNet. Samsung does not accept the decision.