"Today's ruling reinforces what courts around the world have already found: that Samsung willfully stole our ideas and copied our products," Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said in a statement.
The jury awarded Apple $119.6 million and also found Apple infringed one of Samsung's patents, and awarded the Korean company $158,400.
Apple sought $2.2 billion in damages from Samsung, accusing the company of infringing on its patents to create new Galaxy smartphones and tablet. The features that Samsung unlawfully used, Apple charged, involve word correction, the slide feature to unlock a device, quick links, syncing of programs in the background and universal searching.
Samsung denied the claims and argued Apple should pay more than $6 million for infringing its patents on video features on smartphones — including making video calls over cellular networks, taking videos and sending them via email or text messages — and displaying the number of photos or video files within the photos app.
Apple, how about innovating (for real), instead of forcing users to stick to your ... we'll let's leave it here, I don't want to troll.
Samsung's claims don't fly much higher in that lawsuit, but one can excuse them for being in a self-defense position.
I wanted to comment more, but I'll leave it here, I don't think there's much to add to the quotes above!
I guess that confirms what I said before, once: for big corporations, patents are just weapons to be used to wage war or in self defense, like what we're seeing above.
Source:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/05/02/apple-samsung-trial-decision/8537339/