(Update: The decision did not say, as I originally had here, that Samsung only had to pay based on the infringing component, but that a single component could be considered the basis for calculating profits).
Apple will also be entitled to interest on the total damages at the US Treasury bill rate (of just 0.16%) for the period between the verdict and the final judgement, and supplemental damages based on sales of infringing Samsung devices since the verdict.
Rockstar Games' official Twitter account switched on, too – although maybe it shouldn't have, given the lingering threat of legal action based on the BBC infringing its trademarks.
Rockstar Games' official Twitter account switched on, too although maybe it shouldn't have, given the lingering threat of legal action based on the BBC infringing its trademarks.
In suits involving smartphones and tablets — amalgams of hardware, software and telecommunications technologies covered by many thousands of patents — judges are sometimes less likely to halt the shipment of a device based on a few infringing patents.
The six-woman, two-man jury calculated the damages based on 13 products that infringed Apple's patents.
The web portal claimed that Mark Zuckerberg's company's "entire social network model" was based on its technology, and infringed its rights to innovations involved in messaging, privacy controls, advertising, customisation and social networking.
In its lawsuit, Yahoo claimed that Mark Zuckerberg's company's "entire social network model" was based on its technology, and infringed its rights to innovations involved in messaging, privacy controls, advertising, customisation and social networking.
ThinkOptic's primary argument in the case is that Nintendo had previous knowledge that the Wii would infringe based on the Trademark Office's rejection of certain claims in Nintendo-filed patents, reports Law360.
Here's some added detail on the biggest patent litigation settlement in history: Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel $1.5 B based on its Windows Media Player infringing the French telecoms' MP3 technology.
