Apple And Samsung Respond To $1 Billion Jury Verdict

Posted by iPhoneHacks on Aug 25, 2012 | Comments (8)

Apple vs Samsung

The jury announced the verdict in the landmark trial between Apple and Samsung few hours back. The verdict was heavily in Apple’s favor with the jury finding Samsung guilty of infringing on almost all Apple patents and concluding that Apple did not infringe on Samsung’s wireless communication technology patents.

The jury also ordered Samsung to pay Apple over $1 billion in damages.

New York Times has got the early reaction to the news from Apple and Samsung.

Apple’s spokesperson Katie Cotton issued the following statement:

We are grateful to the jury for their service and for investing the time to listen to our story and we were thrilled to be able to finally tell it. The mountain of evidence presented during the trail showed that Samsung’s copying went far deeper than even we knew. The lawsuits between Apple and Samsung were about much more than patents or money. They were about values. At Apple, we value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy. We applaud the court for finding Samsung’s behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right.

Meanwhile, Samsung issued the following statement:

Today’s verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices. It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies. Consumers have the right to choices, and they know what they are buying when they purchase Samsung products. This is not the final word in this case or in battles being waged in courts and tribunals around the world, some of which have already rejected many of Apple’s claims. Samsung will continue to innovate and offer choices for the consumer.

Apple was seeking $2.5 billion in damages, while Samsung’s was demanding $500 million in its countersuit.

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  • Gayfriend

    This is a sad day. It also reflects how fraudulent the justice system in the US is.

    Let’s be rational here: can it be taken seriously that claim your right on things like shape, buttons, design and so on? That’s like saying Motorola would claim their right on phones opening like the way their first phones did, or the guy who made computer mouse with 2 button claimed right on the, or if Steam claimed right on their system, and going to court against Origin. You have to remember that things like pinching to zoom in and so on are as much technological leaps as any other functions that phones have presented since the late 1990′s. But every company has integrated and developed it further themselves, which is what is normal for all products. Innovations are made, standards are set, and they are taken on further by other companies. Apple has done this as much, I would claim even more, as Samsung. Don’t forget that Samsung has made phones since the 90′s, long before Apple, and have therefore made a lot of the technology that was in the iPhone when it was first presented in 2007.

    And never forget that popular products always set the standard for how other products look and feel. It’s only common sense that Apple and Samsung’s products influence each other, or a Macbook and a PC influence each other. This is the basis of innovation, this is the basis of competition. But what Apple is trying to do is creating a monopoly. It sees that Samsung has better phones (let’s be honest here, from en objective point of view), and sells more than them, and tries to push them off the market as a result of it – and they do it with these ludicrous claims (that are on the same line as them going to court against Google for creating a search-engine in their phones, which they, supposedly, had claimed patent on).

    I’ve been buying Apples products for 10 years. But many of their bad choices, including how constricted their products are for their users, which has escalated in these cases, has made me report that I’m removing myself from the Apple-sphere. From today and on I will never buy any products from Apple anymore.

    My respect of Apple is now as low as it is for EA.

    • Dudelove_09

      Bye bye

    • AT&T Rapes Me

      Didn’t apple invent the mouse? All samsung had to do is pay for it, not steal it

    • S.O.I.C.S.P

      I am just sick of companies trying their best to ripoff new revolutionary innovative successful products out there when they are so chicken not to release it in the 1st place even with that same technology in hand.
      There is a flaw to what you have stated. You can take other people’s innovation and take it to the next level, but you have to ask the person who has actually MADE A SUCCESSFUL, PRACTICAL AND POPULAR INNOVATION to allow you to improve on it. Not just copy and say that NO I AM NOT COPYING YOURS, I AM JUST IMPROVING ON WHAT I JUST SEE without much changes. The iOS like layout of the UI, the multitouch, the browser etc. How is that not copying??? Of course maybe the patent wont and cant cover that but imagine the person who actually came up with it and bravely decides that that is it and the company BRAVELY PUT OUT THE PRODUCT AND GOT A HIT, THEN EVERYBODY JUST COPIES. Without even trying to be distinctive in the part where visual comes in. Android’s UI is a direct ripoff of iOS and just throw in some additional stuff to allow them to say :”NO NO, I didn’t copy, see, there are new stuff in the UI”. The problem is, you already copied it the 1st place. BUT MICROSOFT REALLY WENT TO DIFFERENTIATE THEMSELVES FROM IOS AND ANDROID. THAT IS WHAT A REAL COMPETITION IS ABOUT. ANDROID SHOULD HAD JUST COME UP WITH ITS OWN DISTINCT UI FROM THE START. THEN THERE WONT BE ANYTHING APPLE COULD HAVE DONE THEN. I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THE 1 REASON WHY STEVE JOBS SWORE TO ERADICATE ANDROID IS BECAUSE THE UI IS REALLY OBVIOUSLY SAYING THAT “HEY, I AM AN OS COPIED FROM APPLE’S IOS”. You might argue that it is just appearance, but hey, people do judge the book by its cover even when we have a saying like “never judge a book by its cover.” If you are saying Samsung sell more, then you are wrong. You should go look at per model basis, I doubt what Samsung says are just NUMBER OF SHIPPED UNITS, NOT SOLD TO END USER UNITS. THOSE 2 ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT MIND YOU. Ya, they might be a veteran in phone making and that is the one reason they can’t dish out anything like the iPhone. REVOLUTIONARY IN DESIGN AND INTERFACE. DONT GO TELLING ME ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THE TECHNOLOGY BEFORE IPHONE BECAUSE APPLE IS THE ONLY COMPANY BRAVE AND BOLD ENOUGH TO MAKE THE TECHNOLOGY FEASIBLE AND USABLE TO THE ORDINARY CONSUMER FOR PRACTICAL USAGE. THIS ITSELF IS A BIG ACHIEVEMENT. OTHER COMPANIES ARE JUST JEALOUS OF THE SUCCESS OF IPHONE AND TRIES TO COPY IT. EVEN IF THE ALREADY HAVE THE SAME PHONE IN THE 1ST PLACE, I DOUBT THEY WILL RELEASE IT AS A STARTER. I REALLY WANT TO CHALLENGE A COMPANY FROM THE CURRENT PHONE MAKERS TO RELEASE A REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCT ON THEIR OWN THAT HAVE A THING OF THEIR OWN AS THE 1ST TO MARKET THEM WITH GREAT SUCCESS. I REALLY DO LOOK DOWN ON THOSE WHO JUST COPY BECAUSE OF OTHER PEOPLE’ SUCCESS. WHO WAS IT WHO SAID THAT A MULTITOUCH SCREEN WILL SUCK UP SO MUCH POWER THAT I WONT LAST EVEN AN HOUR OR 2 I WONDER. IF SAMSUNG IS REALLY AN INNOVATIVE COMPANY, I CHALLENGE IT TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING DISTINCTIVE ON ITS OWN THAT CAN RIVAL APPLE. CAN YOU DO IT SAMSUNG AND OTHER COMPANIES OUT THERE?

      • Duck

        If Apple is so good, why will their iphone 5 be inferior to the galaxy s3 in many areas? And their patents are ridiculous. They don’t seek to outdo companies. They’re just trying to push them out of the market.

    • Asfrank16

      My problem with your arguement is that Apple is paying other companies for the patents that it has used. Samsung should do the same. I do think our patent system is not the best, but Samsung could have at least true to differentiate its products. It did not

    • Iso

      You should no better than to criticize Apple on this site. I like Apple
      products (excluding Macs) as much as the next guy but this site is just
      one big Apple circlejerk.

  • bob

    i second that
    S.O.I.C.S.P!!