After a year of scorched-earth litigation, a jury decided Friday that Samsung ripped off the innovative technology used by Apple to create its revolutionary iPhone and iPad.
A federal jury in San Jose delivered a verdict late Friday in a patent trial of Apple vs. Samsung, finding that Samsung infringed the screen bounce-back patent on all phones and tablets. ON patent 95, the jury determined the pinch and zoom patent was infringed by Samsun on all but three devices.
Two other patents were also determined to been infringed upon by Samsung — the front of the Apple iPhone and the Apple iPhone home screen.
Samsung could face paying damages of up to $2.5 billion and Apple could gain much as $422 million.
The patents cover Apple’s graphic user interface patents for touch screen functionality, look and feel. Samsung serves as a proxy for Google because its Android software is the operating system for the Samsung devices
The outcome could affect patent cases worldwide for makers of all Android-powered devices.
“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
— Steve Jobs explanation to his official biographer Walter Isaacson
The late Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc. was furious in early 2010 when Taiwan’s HTC introduced an Android phone with many of the popular features of the iPhone, and claimed Google’s Android OS use of Apple interface technology amounted to “grand theft.” Steve Jobs was so angry with Schmidt, that he hid iPhone development from him while Schmidt was on the Apple board.
Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt served on Apple’s board from 2006 to August, 2009. Six month later, Apple unveiled the first iPad, which was released on April 3, 2012.
The first Apple iPhone was released on June 29, 2007 after secret collaboration with AT&T — originally the only wireless provider to offer the Apple iPhone.
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