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Back in 2012, Apple won a lawsuit against Samsung which saw damages of $1 billion that could potentially have been awarded to Apple. However it was later ruled that this was a miscalculation of $400 million, which is why Apple and Samsung are back in the courts again where both sides are arguing for more/less money. Well it looks like a middle ground had been reached as the jury has since decided that Samsung owes Apple an extra $290 million for infringing upon their patents.

Apple had expected to get $379 million, while Samsung estimated that they owed maybe an extra $52 million. Safe to say neither side got what they wanted, although in Samsung’s case it seems like this is definitely more than what they had originally hoped to pay. In total, along with the damages awarded from the original trial, it has been reported that Samsung now owes Apple $640 million in damages. We expect Samsung will attempt to appeal this, but as to whether their appeal will be successful or not remains to be seen. Either way it looks like this patent war between Apple and Samsung is far from over, and we can expect it to roll over in 2014 and maybe even further into the future.

Jury Orders Samsung To Pay An Additional $290 Million To Apple original content from Ubergizmo.

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The original beef Apple and Samsung had with each other was over the design of the Samsung Galaxy S, the first of Samsung’s Galaxy S series of Android devices in which Apple accused Samsung of stealing the iPhone’s design. While that might be arguable, it seems that Apple’s Phil Schiller believes that the copying was so severe that he believes it actually made customers question Apple’s practices as a whole. Speaking during the Apple versus Samsung damages retrial, when asked by an Apple attorney as to what he thought upon first seeing the Samsung Galaxy S, Schiller was quoted as saying, “I was quite shocked. They went and copied the iPhone.”

Schiller goes on to state that by copying Apple’s work, it has “weakened” the way everyone in the world views Apple as a company, and has gotten people to question the company’s innovativeness and design skills “in a way that people never used to”. Those are some pretty fanciful words but we expect nothing less coming from Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. What do you guys think? Do you agree with Schiller that Samsung’s products have made Apple fans question the company’s innovativeness and design? Or do you think that he’s kind of blowing things out of proportion?

Phil Schiller Thinks Samsung’s Alleged Copying Tarnished Apple’s Image original content from Ubergizmo.