The jury at a court in Silicon Valley decided that the Korean smartphone manufacturer , Samsung will have to pay U.S. $ 290 million ( Rp 3 , 3 billion ) to Apple for plagiarizing a number of features on the iPhone and iPad tablets to phones output .
The verdict is out after a previous jury also click punish with fines Samsung against Apple for U.S. $ 1.05 billion for patent infringement cases .
However, the local district court judge Lucy Koh ordered held Click retrial because the jury thinks one should count the number of fines paid by Samsung.
Samsung is expected to appeal against this decision .
While Apple said in a statement calling : " We are grateful for the jury showed that Samsung copied it a punishable offense . "
In a jury verdict convicting that 13 of the 26 tools that reported traced Apple technology by Samsung , proven . These tools are used in the majority of tablet and an older Samsung phone .
' Beautiful and sexy '
After the jury verdict appears , click on the Apple stock exchange rose slightly . Instead Samsung shares slightly lower on the same day .
Samsung itself argued that Apple should not claim to be the owners of the technology which he said is " square base " of the form of smart phones .
" Apple does not have ownership of the properties are beautiful and sexy , " said Samsung's lawyer , William Price to the jury when the trial took place .
However the jury in the court , located only about 15 minutes from Apple 's headquarters in California , thought otherwise and gave fines to be paid to Apple for U.S. $ 380 million as the technology giant sued . Meanwhile, according to Samsung it should be fine only U.S. $ 52 million .
In the trial it was revealed that Samsung stated infringe patents owned by Apple is included in the " pinch and widen " ( pinch and zoom ) which still use the on-screen smart phones and tablets .
Samsung still faces a separate trial that will determine whether the Korean manufacturer was also violated other Apple patents in March 2014 .
Apple has requested that Judge Koh 's decision to consider banning the sale of all models of Samsung mobile phones and tablets using the old Apple technology . ( BBC )
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