Samsung vs. Apple: Samsung asking for $421.8M in damages

The Samsung versus Apple legal war is almost over, at least in the California trial. Samsung has now rested its case, after letting us know just exactly how much they were seeking if they won their side of the infringement suite. While Apple is asking for a staggering 2.5 billion, Samsung's claim is a bit smaller in comparison, though still very much a large sum at $421.8 million.

There are several patents that Samsung says Apple infringed upon. The first three are utility patents covering things like email, photo browsing and music playback. When Apple infringed on these patents, they really didn't cause Samsung any loss of sales, so the amount being asked is simply what they would have charged Apple for licensing the royalties for them. These three come to a total of $22.8 million.

The next two patents are a bit bigger and that's where the bulk of the money Samsung is asking for comes from. These two UMT patents are standards-essential patents, and therefore Apple argued that they should be offered under fair use.

The bottom line is that both sides are asking for as much as they can in order to “teach the other a lesson.” With how much is at stake, I'd attempt to settle things outside of court if I were Apple or Samsung- then again, I'm clearly not. Who do you think will be the victor, or do you think they will settle at the last moment?

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by Andrew Grush, 1 week ago

Legal battles over patent infringement happen all the time, but most of these cases don’t hold a candle to the complexity of the Samsung and Apple patent wars. Not only are the Sammy/Apple battles fought…

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Mike Snyder

Perhaps this time the jury foreman won’t be a complete and utter tool…
- http://www.AndroidAuthority.com/ Darcy Alexander LaCouvee
  
  Perhaps…
- IHATEHIPSTERSSS
  
  Samsung needs to stop copying Apple.
  - McPear
    
    That’s why Apple’s (in)famous user interface patent slide-to-unlock has been INVALIDATED in Germany today April 4th. Not by a goofing amateur jury led by a goofing foreman but by Germany’s Federal Patent Court’s panel of five judges of which two judges with an engineering background,
hoggleboggle

this website really doesn’t have much love for Samsung. – regardless, this will be entertaining to watch
- William
  
  I thought it was strange when he mentioned that Samsung is cut from a different cloth. Didn’t he mean to say Apple instead?
- Jelly Bean
  
  Um, this website is effectively a Samsung fansite at the best of times…
duck Apple

I hope apple losses
http://www.facebook.com/Trent8381 Trent Richards

This retrial should be held in a state other than California.
- MoogleStiltzkin
  
  or another country other than the US. maybe Europe (possibly switzerland) cause their neutral ?
  - http://www.facebook.com/Trent8381 Trent Richards
    
    Being a US patent case, it should remain in the USA. However, not in one of the parties’ backyard. It is safe to say that most if not all of the jurors in the first trial were either tied to Apple or had relatives or friends tied to Apple. I also agree with McPear that non technical jurors shouldn’t be deciding the outcome of a case that effects an entire industry.
- McPear
  
  Utterly ridiculous legal system whereby a jury, by definition consiting of legally and technically incompetent people, decide on extremely complicated patent matters resulting into far reaching consequences. The US should take an example of how German Courts handles the same legal pattent battles. Germany’s Federal Patent Court’s panel of five judges, of which two judges with an engineering background, invalidated April 4th Apple’s user interface patent slide-to-unlock.
MoogleStiltzkin

i think apple is acting disgracefully. even their co founder steve jobs admitted that copying is the biggest form of flattery, and he even admitted to doing it himself when he was running apple while back.

It’s not that i am saying patents for some of the stuff they have is irrelevant, but i find many of them to be deeply flawed whether they can be patented, and especially apples claim to design for anything remotely looking like a smartphone even so far as to say they own the rectangular shaped smartphone with rounded edges.

their claims are just too wide ranging, and someone either the jury, the judge or samsung needs to put a stop to it and put some limitations on apples excessive claims.

The Iraq war was about oil, and apples fight against samsung is about anti competitive behaviour because they are afraid of the rise of the Samsung Galaxy S3 and now S4 which is a way superior product most parts compared to their Iphone 5.