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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Samsung loses to apple - Samsung must pay Apple $ 1 Billion

Samsung loses to apple - Samsung must pay Apple $ 1 BillionThe jury decided Samsung has violated Apple's patents and must pay U.S. $ 1051 billion, or about Rp 9.5 trillion in compensation of damage. The jury consists of nine people in San Jose federal court, California, USA, has considered 700 questions about each party claims that its rival had violated its intellectual property

They were finally granted some of the lawsuit filed by Apple. Initially, the U.S. based company filed a U.S. $ 2.5 million or around Rp 23.7 trillion over the Samsung, but the jury only hears almost half of it. quoted from the BBC, Saturday (08/25/2012), the jury decided Samsung had infringed a patent on Apple's design and software. However, the jury's decision has not been authorized by the judge Lucy Koh, who led the trial.

Victory for Apple could be bad for Samsung and Android, which he founded. Therefore, the judge Lucky Koh can ban sales of some Samsung products in the U.S.. Samsung itself is likely to be appealed.

This story reminds me of like a rivalry with coca cola pepsi.. LOL

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