Jury Keeps Apple Damages At $119.6 Million After Further Deliberation

The total damages Samsung must pay Apple remain unchanged at $119.6 million after additional deliberations in a trial where the South Korean smartphone maker was found to have infringed three Apple patents, according to Reuters.

During the month-long trial in a San Jose, California federal court, Apple accused Samsung of violating patents on smartphone features including universal search, while Samsung denied wrongdoing, Reuters reported.

On Friday, the jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $119.6 million for infringing the iPhone maker's patents, but Apple attorneys argued at the time that the jurors made a technical mistake in awarding Apple damages on a patent covering one of Samsung's phones, according to Reuters.

Apple and Samsung have been litigating around the world for three years, Reuters reported. Jurors awarded the iPhone maker about $930 million after a 2012 trial in San Jose, but Apple failed to persuade U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh to issue a permanent injunction against the sale of Samsung phones in the United States.

Apple is also seeking to ban sales of several Samsung phones, including the Galaxy S III, as well as monetary damages, according to Reuters. It will now be up to Judge Koh to decide whether a sales injunction is warranted, though legal experts deem that unlikely.

In the San Jose trial, the jury found that Samsung had infringed two patents, and the judge had ruled before trial that Samsung had infringed a third, Reuters reported. The jury also found Apple had infringed on one of the Korean company's own patents.

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