One area where Judge Koh did seem animated was when discussing damages and the possibility that the jury awarded too much money to Apple considering that no Apple design patents were found to have been infringed on. The jury award Apple 40% of Samsung's profits and a 50% royalty fee on certain devices. Apple's argument was that the court has to accept the jury's numbers at face value and not compute how it arrived at them.
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The Samsung Galaxy Prevail was mentioned in Thursday's hearings |
After Samsung made the point that the jury didn't get to differentiate between different phone models and thus the jury's verdict was invalid, the testimony turned to the additional $121 million that Apple is asking for. Apple is also seeking permanent injunctions against certain Samsung devices, even if Samsung developed a workaround for the Apple patents.
The Judge brought up the idea of a settlement. "I think it would be good for consumers. It would be good for the industry," Judge Koh said.
Judge Koh had wanted to hand down an all-in-one-verdict, but this is not going to happen. Instead, she will hand down her decisions in installments and not all of them will be ready before the end of the year. At one point in the hearing, the jurist was getting a bit exasperated and wanted to know what it would take to put an end to this case. Now that the hearing is over, hopefully we are a little closer to that point.
source: TheVerge via AppleInsider
