SAMSUNG FINED 1 BILION $ OVER APPLE

Samsung ordered to pay Apple over $1BILLION after losing patent case

Apple has been awarded more than $1 billion in damages as it prevailed in its patent-infringement case against Samsung.

The jury decided that the majority of Samsung smartphones and tablets violate patents held by Apple including features such as the zoom in and out inovation achieved by tapping the screen.

The jury also decided that Samsung's infringement was intentional and said that Samsung's countersuit for $399 million against Apple was without merit.

Kevin Johnson, (right), and Victoria Maroulis, (left), attorneys for Samsung, leave the US Courthouse and Federal building after a jury reached a decision in the Apple Samsung trial on Friday, Aug 24, 2012 in San Jose, California

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The verdict in the complex case came after the nine-member jury began deliberations on Wednesday.

Apple Corp. filed its lawsuit in April 2011 and engaged legions of the country's highest-paid patent lawyers to demand $2.5 billion from its top smartphone competitor. Samsung Electronics Co. fired back with its own lawsuit seeking $399 million.

But the day belonged to Apple as the jury rejected all Samsung's claim against Apple. The jury did reject some of Apple's claims against the two dozen Samsung devices at issue, declining to award the $2.5 billion Apple demanded.

A Californian court has decided that Apple's iPad was copied by Samsung Electronics' Galaxy tablet 10.1 (right) and that the South Korean firm must pay over $1 billion in damages

Samsung conceded that Apple makes great products but said it doesn't have a monopoly on the design of rectangle phones with rounded corners that it claimed it created.

The trial came after each side filed a blizzard of legal motions and refused advisories by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh to settle the dispute out of court.

Samsung has sold 22.7 million smartphones and tablets that Apple claimed uses its technology. McElhinny said those devices accounted for $8.16 billion in sales since June 2010.

Apple and Samsung combined account for more than half of global smartphone sales.

As part of its lawsuit, Apple also demanded that Samsung pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market.

Apple's lawyers argued there is almost no difference between Samsung products and those of Apple, and presented internal Samsung documents they said showed it copied Apple designs. Samsung lawyers insisted that several other companies and inventors had previously developed much of the Apple technology at issue.