This is getting silly.
Judge sets the date for Patent Smackdown 2: The Damages
US Judge Lucy Koh has told Apple and Samsung they'll be back in court in November to try to decide whether the fruity firm deserves an extra $450m damages for alleged patent infringement. The judge has set trial dates for the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 18th of the month in front of eight new jurors, after a previous jury found …
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Tuesday 30th April 2013 14:46 GMT JetSetJim
silly
Indeed - it would be much more cost-effective to let the USPTO invalidate at least most of Apple's patents that they're using before resorting to an overall retrial (which will happen when Sammy appeal everything). This is just a waste of everyone's time so that Apple can trumpet a press release saying they won.
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Tuesday 30th April 2013 20:35 GMT Kevin 6
Re: Public Domain
difference in samsungs patents the majority they have is for actual chips used in devices(and apple has not paid to use but get away with), and other things that are required for phones to work
Vs apples rounded corners, and other prior art patents that are for superficial looks.
Apples patents being thrown free domain I won't argue as they shouldn't even be valid in the 1st place, but samsungs actually required R&D money and paperwork that wouldn't fit on the back of a bar napkin.
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Tuesday 30th April 2013 15:25 GMT MrMur
If you follow this in Groklaw, you will know that Apple have come out and said that they wish to get the appeals and everything over and done with by the time USPTO finalises their invalidations of Apples patents so they get to keep the money anyway, irrespective of UPSTO outcome.
Where is justice in that?
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Tuesday 30th April 2013 21:27 GMT Lord Elpuss
So $600m is already agreed?
So if I read this correctly, the $600m stands, and this new trial is about the other $450m.
So Sammy still gets to bend over and pick up the soap, it's just about whether they let another 450 prisoners into the washroom to join the 600 already there. Or am I misunderstanding something?
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Wednesday 1st May 2013 15:16 GMT Tom 13
Re: Sammy still gets to bend over
Well, if you were Sammy, yes; but only because you'd be out of cash.
Sammy on the other hand will spend some of theirs to appeal it if the ruling is too in favor of Apple. Apple will do likewise if the verdict is in favor of Sammy. Basically it won't end until it gets to SCOTUS.