Apple-Samsung Verdict Is In (in South Korea)

The Seoul District Court ruled a split decision in the patent case between Samsung and Apple, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Apple was found guilty of infringing Samsung's patents with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and its first two iPad generations. It has been barred from selling them in South Korea, and must pay Samsung what works out to $35,000 in damages.

Samsung, meanwhile, has to stop selling the Galaxy S and SII, along with the Galaxy Tab and Tab 10.1 and pay Apple about $22,000.

So Apple pays an $11,000 speeding ticket, and both companies can still sell all their latest products (the iPhone 4S, the new iPad, the Galaxy SIII and the Galaxy Tab2 were all released after the lawsuit was filed)? Could've been worse.

But the case still results in an immediate sales ban on numerous products in South Korea. The ban affects the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPad 2, and Samsung’s Galaxy S, S2, Galaxy Tab and Tab 10.1, IDG said.

The ban does not affect products released after the case was filed, such as the latest iPad, the iPhone 4S, or the Samsung Galaxy S3.

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Source : ign[dot]com