Apple Gets $1 Billion From Samsung—Nothing Changes

An Apple iPad next to Samsung's new tablet device, the Galaxy TabPhotograph by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
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It ain’t over yet, not by a long shot.

Apple got the best of Samsung in the first of their many patent trials to go to a U.S. jury. A nine-person panel came back to the federal courtroom in San Jose, Calif., Friday afternoon, after only three days of deliberation, and announced that the Korean electronics giant had infringed six of the seven patents for Apple mobile devices that were at issue in the trial. The verdict came with a $1.05 billion price tag, less than half of what Apple was looking for, but not too shabby, all the same.