The result is in! It's taken four weeks of legal tussles in the court room, and two and a half days of deliberation (involving sifting through hundreds of pages of documents), but the jury has found Samsung guilty of copying the iPhone and iPad, and awarded Apple over $1bn.
The jury also rejected every one of Samsung's patent claims, and found the Korean company had breached US antitrust law by trying to keep its wireless patents as a monopoly. So what does this mean for the world of tech?
Apple originally asked for $2.75bn in damages. While the jury didn't agree on all counts, the verdict was only in Apple's favour. Samsung will have to pay Apple damages of $1,049,393,540. It won't receive a penny in return, as every one of its counter-accusations were quashed. The Korean company was seeking $421m.
Here's the full list of Samsung products that the jury found infringed Apple's patents. It includes the Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Ace.
And you can go through the full 20 page verdict here.
So what happens next? Judge Lucy Koh has scheduled a preliminary hearing on injunctions for 20 September. Depending on the outcome, it could mean some of the offending Samsung devices are banned from sale, in the US at least. Apple will have to file its requests by Monday, Samsung will have two weeks to respond, and then both companies will sit down on 20 September. I'm guessing it won't be over tea and cakes.
This hearing was scheduled more than three weeks away to give Samsung "maximum time", according to Koh. Expect Apple to go all-out, asking for as many products as possible to be banned. And based on the outcome of the trial, it could well succeed.
The jury returned the verdict quicker than expected -- one Apple lawyer came into the court in his civvies, he was so unprepared. Should it have all gone Apple's way? Should Samsung devices be banned? Or is the whole trial misguided? Let me know what you reckon in the comments, or on Facebook.
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anonymous 25 August, 2012 09:16
Did anyone expect a jury of Californian iPhone users to find Apple guilty? The time it took them to come to their conclusion says a lot.
anonymous 25 August, 2012 09:21
What he/she said ^
anonymous 25 August, 2012 09:24
there's some kind of crazy going on.....
anonymous 25 August, 2012 09:25
I wonder how much it will cost Apple for aggressive monopoling next year? I hear Pizza Express will next be suing Pizza Hut for making Pizzas - inspired by this outcome.
Ridiculous.
Mark Anderson 25 August, 2012 09:36
Not surprising. The original SGS was a blatant copy of the iPhone 3GS. Man up and pay up Samsung and then licence the technology from Apple like everyone else has because, frankly, FRAND terms mean they have to offer it to you at a reasonable price anyway.
The most interesting thing about this whole shambles of a trial is the jury's decision that the Tab does not violate the iPad's trade dress which blows the whole tablet market right open.
billfred 25 August, 2012 10:24
There is no pleasing some people. Even after judges allow the case and a jury rules. And it's only 3 products.
Yes we all know Samsung's lawyers seem to be about as competent as ... I can't really be assed to make a good simile.
billfred 25 August, 2012 10:26
Oops scrap that thing about 3 products.
anonymous 25 August, 2012 10:49
Common Sense prevails! Samsung cant innovate they copy, Then claim they are designers! They should stick to making tv's
georg55 25 August, 2012 10:51
Does this matter to us in UK,judge here says Samsung did not copy so no ban here or in Europe,so USA can do do what they want,apple is american
anonymous 25 August, 2012 11:25
Even if the iphone was the only choice of mobile on the shelves as a result of Apple banning every other product, I still would not buy one.
anonymous 25 August, 2012 11:46
But you would buy an S3 which is a copy of an iphone on steroids right?
anonymous 25 August, 2012 13:55
Anonymous@11:46 talk crap galaxy s3 is nothng like an iphone end of. Apple make great products but you are clearly a oh wats that term fanboy
anonymous 25 August, 2012 14:39
Lol @ 13:55 ironic fanboy statement #retardedargument
anonymous 25 August, 2012 14:45
[IMG]http://i47.tinypic.com/2wcf82c.jpg[/IMG]
@ 14:39. This is not twitter so enough with the hashtags!
A Non Mouse
anonymous 25 August, 2012 14:47
I love the blind hatered or either Samsung or apple. I realise apple built a massive cult following based on a small range of high 'quality' products. And Samsung did very well making various large range of products. Frankly they both want your money. But still. I like they who get all worked up when one of them does 'anything' :)
anonymous 25 August, 2012 14:53
@ 14:45
#giveashitstayvaguelyontopicratherthantrollarguing
Xx
I'm sure apple an Samsung + google will kiss an make up when it suits them.
Money talks
anonymous 25 August, 2012 14:59
14:53.
Props! at least you are a self confessed troll. And my copy link to pic is on topic ;)
A Non Mouse
Kilbot 25 August, 2012 17:25
Surprise surprise the iYanks are claiming they invented everything again. It's just like Microsoft in the nineties, the amount of idea the yanks have stolen from the world beggars belief, the even claim Jesus Christ was a native American. How can the have the cheek to have a go at Samsung rightly counter claiming that Apple violates it's technology patents such as 3G, yet award Apple on all it's claims. That alone speaks volumes about this entire case and the iYanks attitude to competition, it's just protectionism seer protectionism.
anonymous 25 August, 2012 18:13
Personally, I think its all crap, and its definately about the money and nothing else. Lets get down to basics, you dont see the inventor of the pen, sueing everybody that makes pens, do you ???
After all (the basics) a pen is an item for putting ink (in whatever variant) onto paper. A basic patent !!!!
I say that Alexander Graham Bell should get out of the grave and sue the pants off every other manufacturer for infringement of his patent.
Eventually everyone is going to come to the same conclusive design that makes there product work more efficiently, take cars for instance, they basically look almost the same ???
anonymous 25 August, 2012 19:32
you put jurors in California (not very far from Apple HQ) - an American company vs. a foreign one... guess who is more likely to win?
ninjagsf 25 August, 2012 20:46
Next companies will be suing each other because all TVs are rectangular!
anonymous 26 August, 2012 06:51
I had a feeling that the verdict would go this way when the judge rejected key evidence from Samsung prior to the trial. It all stinks, it is not about IP it is about market share. Plain and simple.
There is not some puppet master in the US pulling strings on this but it is hard to dismiss the protectionism seen here at the hands of the judge and jury. Free markets, what a joke!
anonymous 26 August, 2012 10:26
I thought android and iOS were massively different. The iPhone came out then all the android stuff followed and looked nothing like iOS. Apart from the squares, and the app lay out. But apart from that... and the way it functioned obviously. Even the phones themselves looked way different from the very first iPhone design. I think there were a few with almost exacting dimensions but they had square home buttons and wern't sold in apple shops. The two things were nothing alike until android was developed and Samsung made simelar looking phones. But thats only 2 things. Apple are just being dumb.
anonymous 26 August, 2012 10:48
Lol @ 10:26. I know you're being sarcastic, but let's be honest. We all know how simelar the os and 'some' Samsung phones looked. Blackberry, Sony, Nokia didn't make all their phones 'look' like an iPhone design. I think it's a pretty fair bet to say that evidence was probably painful to samsungs case. It's also alleged that top Samsung execs email each other saying 'put this iPhone feature into....' but I wasn't in court to know if that's entirely true.
anonymous 26 August, 2012 15:06
I don't think Samsung has not copied the features of iPhone. It was a mistake . I used iPhone and Samsung . I Cant feel the similarity.
anonymous 26 August, 2012 18:23
Apple clearly invented the icon and came up with the concept of applications as runnable programs
As for ordered squares on a screen they are clearly the originators
Rectangles - they invented the golden ratio.
They also invented the portable mp3 player and integrated into a phone.
They invented the camera, mobile phones and then combined them
They invented the touch screen and all gestures especially multitouch
They invented buttons as a means to functionality
They invented the concept of a home screen
They invented Linux
They invented http
They invented TCP/IP
They invented HTML, JavaScript and CSS
They invented application servers and wep-app containers
They invented indexed content as a means to providing useful information for us.
They invented 2G
They invented 3G
They invented ARM processors
They invented GPS
They came up with iMoore's law and understood that devices will get smaller whilst others played with dirt
They invented Bluetooth
They invented USB
They invented file compression
They invented accelerometers
They invented invention full stop
As you can see there was nothing before Apple. We owe them so much to enable smart phones to be smart. So stop winging and fork out your money to the only company worthy of using this technology.
Evolution is for chimps, Apples iPhone was created by a higher being and so obviously just appeared from nowhere in 2007.
Who would have thought the Beatles could have been so innovative.
anonymous 26 August, 2012 21:35
@18:23 I'm not quite sure what point you're even trying to make? We're these points raised in court and hence apple won? Lol. I don't think apple will sue Blackberry, Sony or Nokia. Their phones looked different in the main.
anonymous 26 August, 2012 22:37
Keep laughing, Apple is suing all of those and many, many more. They are patent trolls!
anonymous 27 August, 2012 07:54
381: Bonce back (Nov 2011) - yeah, I'm pretty sure Samsung got this idea from apple. But in a word meh, maybe they should give some money apples way there. But also consider all the functionality iOS has taken from Android.
915: Scrolling in a user interface (Nov 2010) - A company can patent scrolling. Seriously, the patent office must be on drugs!
163: Tap to zoom and image centring (Jan 2011) - gestures used in modern smart phones were already known in touch screen tech before the iPhone. Also hardly a new concept when you consider Google maps or any software where you zoom in and out.
D558, 757 and 677: trade dress and the look and feel - essentially a rectangular, flat touch screen device with a bezel that can fit in your hand. This is not unique and too obvious to have been allowed to obtain a patent. LG Prada is a good example to quash these as a design it was out before the iPhone.
Also if you notice the functionality gesture patents came out post Nov 2010 way after touch screen devices had become a popular interface for phones.
Apple has advanced the user interface experience with the iPhone. But they did nothing new, they are just good at marketing and aggressive with the use of patents as a way of protecting market share.
I find it disturbing that a company can have a competitors products banned in this way over obvious designs.
If you can show me someone who believed they were buying an Apple product when they were buying a Samsung product then I will show you an idiot.
anonymous 27 August, 2012 09:04
@7:54 agreed with all points. Unfortunately, Apple may well have used some or all of these patented things you refer to. But Apple are also known for making sure they pay for licensing of patented ideas after the iPod incident. (and probably cause they get copied by smaller third parties in china etc) we don't know what Apple have or haven't paid for. They don't ever claim to have invented everything... Including GUIs or the interaction with a mouse. They often apply it first, and often pay for the privilege. They'll get sued soon enough if they haven't.