Apple vs Samsung ( & Google?)!
So if you guys didn’t know, Apple & Samsung have been at it again, Round Two in the Battle of The Patents. After winning Round 1 in The Battle, Apple were awarded $1 billion in damages, eventually reduced to $929 million.
This time, Apple was seeking $2.2 Billion in damages from Samsung over 5 patents, and for the judge to stop Samsung selling their devices in the US.
As unlikely as this was to happen, the lawsuit was still a pain in Samsung’s butt and wallets. What made it a little easier? Google offered to help Samsung cover their costs.
According to reports from Windows IT Pro Blog, Apple’s lawyers showed a video during testimony in which a Google attorney confirmed that there were email messages between Google and Samsung where Google offered to help cover Samsung’s legal expenses and maybe even damages fees.
This kind of financial assistance, known as indemnification, is covered by Google’s “contractual obligations” to Samsung, because they are the hardware partner that sells the most Android phones.
Basically, because Samsung are the biggest hardware partner that uses Google’s apps and operating system, they want to help there guy out, right? And so they do it with offers of money and offers to defend some patent claims Samsung says is covered by Google’s Android Operating System.
Samsung was also claiming a smaller $7 million for Apple infringing two of its patents.
Today, the unanimous jury verdict was reached after three days of deliberation, finding that Samsung willfully infringed on two of the 5 patents involved in the suit. Samsung has been ordered to pay $119.6 million, which whilst still a win, is not exactly what Apple had hoped for, especially knowing that Google might be helping Samsung out by throwing some cash their way!
Apple in turn were ordered to pay Samsung $158,400. Mere pennies! What we’re all wanting to know though is,
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Tags: Lawsuits, Samsung Versus Apple, winning
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May 2, 2014 4:42 pm
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