Samsung found guilty of patent infringement, Apple awarded $1.05 billion

Samsung willfully infringed on a number of Apple patents, a nine-member jury ruled Friday.

The decision leaves Samsung to pay $1.05 billion in damages to the Cupertino company and signals the end to one of the most closely watched and hotly contested patent trials in history.

The nine-member jury also rejected Samsung’s countersuit, meaning the South Korean company will walk away with nothing.

Verdict unfolds

Design by design, patent by patent, U.S. District judge Lucy Koh read through the jury’s decision, finding Samsung guilty on multiple counts of patent infringement for handfuls of Apple patents.

It took the jury just two days to come to the verdicts, which hand Apple a win in a suit where they accused Samsung of stealing the technologies and designs that made their signature products – the iPhone and iPad – some of the most successful products in the world.

Key to Apple’s victory was the decision by the jury that its patents were valid. Samsung had relied on this accusation in the hopes of eroding Apple’s claims that Samsung took designs and technologies that were wholly unique.

The jury didn’t find it that way.

Samsung’s violations

Samsung devices like the Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S i9000, Epic 4G and many more violated patents for features like “bounce-back,” “pinch and zoom” and “tap and zoom.”

The company was also found guilty of violating Apple patents covering designs like flat screens and rounded edges while the jury found in Apple’s favor on claims Samsung diluted the iPhone 3’s trade dress in at least six devices.

From the wreckage

Not much can be salvaged from the jury’s verdict, though one silver lining is not all of its devices were found to be in violation.

Samsung’s Galaxy tablets were not found to infringe the iPad’s designs.

A patent lawyer speaking to TechRadar said that both parties could have potentially walked away with damages, though the jury clearly ruled Samsung's arguments didn't hold water in the court of law.

Stay tuned to TechRadar for developments as they unfold.