Condemns Samsung for violating patents Apple devices

The federal court jury in San Jose (California) responsible for settling the patent war that pits tech giants Apple and Samsung ordered the company to pay the South Korean company of Silicon Valley 1000 million dollars (800 million euros) to have copied at least three of the innovations that the latter used in different devices, including the popular iPhone, iPad and iPodTouch. The verdict is further concluded that the company founded by Steve Jobs did not violate any of the patents Samsung, as it also reported. Samsung has responded Saturday announcing his intention to appeal against the measures taken by the court. The jury's decision can have enormous consequences for the U.S. and global market of smartphones and tablets. Samsung and Apple control between the two almost half the world market for these devices.Depending on the sentence imposed by the judge and, in particular, whether affects new or old models, the trade impact can be enormous. The nine jurors heard on Tuesday for four hours closing arguments that revolved around the degree of technological originality accounted for iPhone and iPad and, although the trial judge that the parties tried to reach an agreement, it has been impossible. According to the resolution, agreed just three days after the conclusion of the hearing, Samsung copied its mobile technology used by iPhones for larger screen and imitated the look of your icons, Apple had registered. In the manufacture of the tablet 10.1, did not violate Korean company patent as claimed Apple as a verdict. Still unknown the practical consequences of this decision, but it is very likely that the South Korean giant may not distribute the latest model of its Galaxy phone in the U.S., seeing reduced its prevalence in the U.S. mobile market. Last year Samsung sold 50 million smartphones, nearly double the iPhone sold by Apple terminals, and a profit of 5,900 million dollars (about 4,800 million euros) in the last quarter. On April 15, 2011, the company founded by Steve Jobs Samsung sued by 2,750 million dollars claiming that the South Korean company had copied its iPhone and iPad designs when creating their mobile phone models, Galaxy S, Galaxy SII, your tablet Tab 10.1, 22 and other products. Samsung countered Apple claiming 400 million for taking advantage of the technology developed wifi when iPhones and iPads and for violating its patent for integrating 3G mobile network. During the trial claimed that Apple's designs were "not so original". The verdict comes hours after another court in Seoul ruled that both companies are copying each other.The judge ruled that Apple had copied two patents for wireless data transmission Samsung-why you should pay 17. $ 650 in damages, and that the latter had imitated the rebound effect of the screen when you reach the end of a document iPhones. According to the judgment, the South Korean company will stop selling 10 of its products in that country, including the Galaxy SII and California has banned the distribution of your iPhone 4. Apple's lawyers asked the jury to pay attention to the chronology of the design of Samsung phones before and after the iPhone debuted in 2007, Apple said that it took five years to create, Samsung copied it in three months in response to Design crisis. In his turn to speak, the legal representatives of Samsung berated Apple's attitude as not seeking financial compensation for that trial by court order but ensured a competitive advantage in the market by blocking most serious rival and world number one seller telephones worldwide.