SAN JOSE: - A federal court jury on Thursday ordered Samsung to pay Apple $533 million for copying iPhone design features in a patent case dating back seven years. A jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple more than $500 million in a retrial of a seven-year-old case for damages for infringing on iPhone patents. The lower figure sought by the South Korean consumer electronics titan would have involved treating the design features as components. The key question of the value of design patents rallied Samsung supporters in the tech sector, and Apple backers in the creative and design communities. The case is one element of a $548 million penalty -- knocked down from an original $1 billion jury award -- Samsung was ordered to pay for copying iPhone patents.

Source: Bangkok Post May 25, 2018 01:30 UTC