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Apple's $539 Million in Damages Is a ‘Big Win’ Over Samsung

  • Global patent battle between smartphone makers started in 2011
  • Samsung argued it should pay only $28 million for infringement
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Bloomberg’s Peter Elstrom reports on Apple’s court struggle with Samsung over smartphone technology.(Source: Bloomberg)
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Apple Inc. won $539 million from Samsung Electronics Co. in the final throes of the companies’ U.S. court struggle over smartphone technology, seven years after the start of a global patent battle.

Apple sought about $1 billion in a retrial of a case that originally produced a verdict of that amount in 2012, while Samsung argued it should pay only $28 million this time.