A grand
jury found Samsung guilty of violating a patent that Apple had on its
iPod/iPhones. Samsung copied it and put it in its new smartphone. This is very
important to the technology industry because Samsung is Apples top competitor.
Apple was awarded $1.05 Billion which is less then half of the $2.5 Billion that
Apple was originally asking for in the lawsuit. Samsung must now pull all of
its top tablets and phones that infringed on Apples patents. The patent that
was violated was the patent that gave Apple full rights to rectangular devices
with rounded corners.
I learned from this
article that even large companies like Samsung have to be responsible for what
they do and must pay the consequences even though they are billion dollar
companies. I was surprised that Samsung was fined that much money because
usually large companies like that are not really punished that severely.
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