SAMSUNG Owes APPLE More Than $1 Billion for Infringing Patents Apple is a California corporation having its principal

place of business at InfiniteLoop, Cupertino, California. Apple has protected its innovative designs and cutting-edge technologies through a broad range of intellectual property rights. The revolutionary patented design and user experience of these products are the result of Apples massive investment in innovation and have contributed to theextraordinary acclaim and success of Apples products.APPLEaccused SAMSUNG of infringing (violating) on three utility patents and four design patents. (REASON 1) Some of them are as follows PATENT NUMBER TITLE a.) on a structu re incomputer generated data 5,946,647 (the 647 Patent) System and method for performing an action

b.)6,847,959 (the 959 Patent)

Universal interface for

retrieval of information in a computer system . c.)8,046,721 (the 721 Patent) performing gestures Unlocking a device by

(REASON 2) Samsung has not obtained permission fromApple to use itsinventions in the identified utility patents. (RESULTS) Infringed Samsung products include at least 21 New Smartphones including Galaxy S III,Galaxy Note,Galaxy S II, Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablets. Velvin Hogan, Foreman of the jury said It became rather obvious that SAMSUNG either knowingly - or sh ould have known - that they were getting close to infringing. Jury in San Jose ,California declared that the Korean electronics giant should Pay $1.049 billion to the US tech giant.