Federal Judge Lucy Kho has vacated more than $450 million of the $1 billion judgement awarded to Apple at the end of their trial against Samsung. Judge Kho determined that the jury made an error when calculating the damages owed to Apple.
Florian Müller of FOSS Patents reports:
That is a huge bite out of Apple's judgement, but I'm sure this spat between the two tech giants is not over. $500 million is still a lot of money, and they are still battling on several other fronts. Stay tuned.
Florian Müller of FOSS Patents reports:
The $450 million amount corresponds to 14 Samsung products, with respect to which a new damages trial must be held because the court cannot make the adjustments it deems necessary for legal reasons: the jury set only one damages figure per product, but half a dozen different intellectual property rights were found infringed, resulting in a lack of clarity as to what portion of a per-product damages figure is attributable to a given intellectual property right.
That is a huge bite out of Apple's judgement, but I'm sure this spat between the two tech giants is not over. $500 million is still a lot of money, and they are still battling on several other fronts. Stay tuned.