Samsung to Pay $533 Million to Apple After “Blatantly Copying” iPhone Design

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung must pay a total of $539 million in damages to Apple, according to a recent court ruling.

The Samsung versus Apple lawsuit was started seven years ago, and is currently at its third retrial, with Apple originally seeking no less than $1 billion in damages. Samsung, on the other hand, said it was willing to pay only $28 million for infringing on three patents.

Apple accused Samsung of copying five different patents, three of which covered iPhone design, while the other two protected different utilities that the South Korean firm eventually used without authorization. The three design patents are the following:  US Patent No. D618,677, <a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchn… (read more)

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