BBC Online :
Samsung has been ordered to pay $119.6m (£71m) to Apple by a US court for infringing two of its patents.
A jury in California delivered its verdict in a federal court in San Jose on Friday in the latest lawsuit involving the two tech giants.
Apple had sought $2bn at the trial, accusing Samsung of violating patents on smartphone features.
The court also ruled that Apple infringed Samsung’s patents and awarded $158,000 in damages.
The verdict will probably come as a blow for Apple, which portrayed Samsung as resorting to “the dark side of intentional copying”.
The figure would appear to reflect the jury’s belief that Apple’s settlement claim was unfairly inflated; Samsung argued all along that it should be far lower than the $2.2bn sought, not least because some of the patents were never even incorporated into the iPhone’s software.
They say lawyers are the only ones who win from patent wars. In this case that could well prove true – with all the mudslinging and embarrassing leaks of internal memos witnessed in the courtroom over the past month, neither company’s reputation has been enhanced.
Apple had sought $2.2bn after accusing Samsung of infringing five of its patents covering functions such as the “slide to unlock” from its devices.
Samsung denied any wrongdoing and sought $6m after arguing Apple had infringed two of its smartphone patents related to camera use and video transmission.
