$450 Million Slashed From Apple’s $1 Billion Damages Award In Samsung Patent Lawsuit

(3:03 pm PDT, Mar 1st)

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Apple has lost nearly half of the $1 billion in damages it was awarded last August after beating Samsung in a high-profile U.S. patent lawsuit. The presiding judge over the case, Lucy Koh, decided to invalidate $450.5 million of the original damages owed to Apple in a new ruling today.

Damages were incorrectly calculated for 14 Samsung devices related to the trial, and Koh has ordered a retrial for the updated damages amount.

Koh believes that the jury didn’t calculate damages properly with regards to Apple’s utility patents and the timeframe the Cupertino company should be awarded damages for. It was considered a crushing defeat for Samsung last summer when the jury ruled in favor of Apple in the case. Apple had accused Samsung of stealing its patented iPhone designs and using them in Android phones.

This new ruling doesn’t mean that Apple isn’t the overall victor, but the technicalities of how much money Samsung has to pay out will be reexamined. At this point, Apple is still entitled to $600 million in damages and possible supplemental damages that have yet to be determined.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/jason.bennett1 Jason Bennett

    This, from the same judge who was recently hired by Samsung to testify for them as an expert witness in another trial? Yeah.. that seems unbiased.

    • http://www.facebook.com/jason.bennett1 Jason Bennett

      oops…my mistake…that was a british judge, Sir Robin Jacob.

  • digitaldumdum

    Judge Koh simply “decided” to change the amount of awards decided in court?? Man, that’s some power she has. Sounds like Judge Koh is on the take from Samsung. Wonder how much she’s getting under the table… I mean under the bench.

  • http://twitter.com/CruxFiveTen Crux

    she’s going to end up writing a memoir later on and confess she’s on the take. Must be her roots applying pressure on her conscience.

  • http://twitter.com/Ruichuen1989 BeMorePatientRC

    Samsung is the b****

  • lolwut

    This dumb asian b1tch judge made this thing bigger than it needed to be, attention wh0re. fcuk apple.

  • http://www.facebook.com/karl.scott.37 Karl Scott

    such a farce this case, I dont understand how this woman can change her mind so many times during the course of a case, say many unprofessional comments during it and then change the awarded damages after the case is over? WTF goes on in these courts. If this is not evidence of corruption i dont know what is

  • http://www.facebook.com/rob.bonner.90 Rob Bonner

    Oh my, very misleading. Not slashed, just set aside to be re-evaluated. Portions, if not more, can be re-instated. Pretty sure she wanted the calculations to be correct.

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