Soleron on 27 August 2012
The jury made so many mistakes that an appeal is certain.
- Damages amount deliberately "punishing" rather than accurate reflection of the lost earnings as instructed
- Damages for individual phones don't bear any connection to their sales or the scale of infringement
- Didn't consider patent prior art by their own admission
- Jurors contradicting each other in the media post-trial
if it stands though, I don't think anyone will gain except other Android makers than Samsung. Apple could not sell more phones because they don't make anything mid-low end, Nokia is extremely dead regardless and everyone else is irrelevant.
So I guess I'd bet on HTC.
