Could the recent verdict in Apple's landmark patent lawsuit against Samsung Electronics lead to lessened legal hostilities between the two consumer electronics giants?
Don't hold your breath.
Neither side came out a complete winner in a federal jury's decision late Friday that Samsung infringed on two of the patents that Apple had sued over. It ruled that Samsung phones did not infringe on two others, and awarded Apple $119.6 million, a fraction of the $2.2 billion in damages it had sought.
That award includes the jury's damages for another patent, concerning autocorrect features that the presiding judge had previously ruled had been infringed upon by Samsung. After deliberating for nearly three full days, the jury of four women and four men also found Apple infringed one of Samsung's patents, and awarded the Korean company $158,400.
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