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Samsung  has been ordered to pay over $1 billion for copying Apple iPhone and iPad

 

Samsung copies & Apple claims that it destroyed email evidence in "me too" filing.

A court in America found that the company had copied the critical features of the iPhone and iPad's software and design. It means Samsung could even be banned from selling certain products that are believed to be copies of Apple's technology. The company said it would be appealing against the verdict.

The jury awarded Apple $1 billion in damages—an amount that could be tripled because Samsung is deemed to have “willfully” copied some aspects of Apple’s wildly popular iPhone and its iPad tablet computer.

Exactly what is Samsung alleged to have “COPIED”?

• Like Apple, Samsung also allowed users to enlarge documents by tapping the screen.

• They incorporated “bouncing back” feature when you reach the bottom of the screen (the “rubber band”).

• Samsung made a distinction between single finger and multi-finger actions (e.g. zooming with a two-finger “pinch” gesture.)

• Samsung infringed on the shape of and the colour of the iPhone (and was found guilty of separate patent violation for black and white iPhones).

• Some Samsung icons were similar to Apple’s, and had similar rounded edges

Each of these feature was patented by Apple, allowed under the patent laws, and led to the damages against Samsung of over a billion dollars.

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