Apple Vs. Samsung: Judge Cuts Damages, Orders New Trial

COMMENTS (9)

• Hey, Apple. Xerox called. They want their mouse back.

  Comment by Andrea McKee — Friday March 1, 2013 @ 10:53pm PST  Reply to this post

• Oh Apple.. how the mighty have fallen. That’s what you get for litigating instead of innovating. In one more generation, Samsung will have left you completely in the dust. As it stands, if the new Galaxy S4 is everything it’s hyped to be, I’ll be ditching my iPhone 5 for one as soon as they are available.

  Comment by NervisRex — Saturday March 2, 2013 @ 1:26am PST  Reply to this post

  • Innovating? That’s laughable! Samsung spends a lot of time engaging in illegal competition. Just look at some of the recent penalties it had to pay.

    Samsung got fined €150.8 million in December 2012 by the EU for being part of a price-fixing cartel on cathode ray tubes. It was fined $240 million in December 2011 by the US for being part of a price-fixing cartel on LCD panels. It did not have to pay damages for being part of a price-fixing cartel on cathode ray tube glass because it ratted out its fellow conspirators, who paid €128 million to the EU in October 2011. (Talk about honor among thieves, right?!) It received a penalty of $300 million from the US in October 2005 for being part of a price-fixing cartel on DRAM.

    Lets not forget Samsung’s 2008 scandal, where Chairman Lee Kun Hee stepped down after getting busted for tax evasion, bribery, etc. However, given his family’s influence in South Korea, he was pardoned despite evidence of wrongdoing and returned to Samsung in 2010 as the company’s chairman.

    I am not a fan of Apple, and I own just an iPod from the company. However, stop making Samsung out to be the good guy because that is not true.

    Comment by what? — Saturday March 2, 2013 @ 10:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• Ideally a new trial shouldn’t be held until after the appeal like the judge requests in the order.

  Also the more things get delayed the more likely the challenges to some of the patents will be resolved one way or the other.

  The patent office has preliminarily voided some of them but apple can still appeal that.

  Comment by v — Saturday March 2, 2013 @ 2:23am PST  Reply to this post

• They seriously need to grow up, these lawsuits are like little kids shoving each other.

  The patents in question should never have been issued because they were only made to create lawsuits.
  You should not be able to own patents on a screen that can be touched in two or more places at the same time.
  The only real winners out of this is the lawyers because although apple won this round (lost some but there still getting a payout) Samsung has won a seperate legal battle. In the end one is going to end up slightly on top and the other is going to respond with another stupid lawsuit.

  There is a big difference between making a competing product in the same market and stealing intellectual property.

  Neither of these two created the smartphone, tablets or even 99% of the tech that’s involved. They have adjusted other people’s designs and patents to create their own product and they think that gives them the rights to be the only manufacturer on the market.

  Comment by Mark — Saturday March 2, 2013 @ 8:32am PST  Reply to this post

• Sorkin better get that Jobs script done. Because in 5 years no one’s gonna know (or care) who Steve Jobs was.

  Comment by Mitchell — Saturday March 2, 2013 @ 12:34pm PST  Reply to this post

  • well said Mitchell, it is rapidly sinking, and there doesn’t seem to be a lifeline. I don’t know of anyone who upgraded their iphone this year, most went to Samsung, and a few to Microsoft, yes Microsoft and they love it. (I love my Blackberry, and can’t wait to get the new one with the new camera which you adjust the shot to the previous 5 seconds, no more closed eyes!)

    Comment by chris — Saturday March 2, 2013 @ 2:17pm PST  Reply to this post

    • Yeah right, man. I don’t know of anyone who switched to Samsung. Everybody I know leaped at the chance to get an iPhone 5. Even my 90-year old grandmother asked me about the iPhone. You don’t see people donating their kidneys to buy Samsung products. There are cases of people, i.e. in China, doing that for Apple products. The demand for Apple products is real, even to an irrational level, and you don’t get that with Samsung products. Samsung is a joke of a company that keeps getting busted for trade violations.

      Comment by hmmm — Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 7:20am PST  Reply to this post

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  Comment by IT UP — Saturday March 2, 2013 @ 9:23pm PST  Reply to this post