Sure, we’ve all written a number that big, but have you ever written a number in the billions knowing that there might be actual money moving behind it, eventually, after endless appeals?
Samsung did manage to get a sweet little 0.24 percent discount, which caused the whole thing to have to be rewritten, but either way, it’s still a huge number. The lawsuit did not turn out particularly well for Samsung, and this kind of sums it up, in nine orders of magnitude. [Cult of Mac]














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Not enough, Samsung need to Pay MORE for shameless attempts at cloning Apples products… Tut tut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZrgxHvNNUc
On what basis were the amounts actually calculated? They seem pretty much random.
jurors looked at how similar each samsung product looked like an iphone and then multiplied it by ten.