Samsung to pay Apple $290 million for patent infringement

In the damages retrial between Apple and Samsung we've seen accusations of racial bias and claims that the iPad mini wasn't inspired by the success of 7-inch tablets, but now we have the only piece of information that matters. The jury has just reached its verdict, and decided that Samsung should pay Apple $290 million for infringing on the company's patents.

In August of last year a different Jury found that Samsung was guilty of infringing Apple patents with a range of devices. Samsung had initially been ordered to pay Apple $1.049 billion in damages, but after further legal wrangling Judge Lucy Koh determined that the jury had incorrectly determined the amount of damages — and cut the amount down to less than $600 million. The balance of the amount was the subject of the damages retrial that's been taking place. $290 million is a significant drop from the more than $450 balance the Koh cut, but it's clearly not the kind of number Samsung was looking for. Apple had been asking for $380 million out of the damages retrial, while Samsung was targeting a mere $52 million.

While the jury went into deliberations on Tuesday it wasn't certain that they'd come back with a verdict this week. They'd recently been engaging in a back and forth over their lunch menu — not that kind of behavior one would necessarily expect from a jury that was close to wrapping things up. Then again, before coming out to read the verdict one of the jury's last requests was that they be provided with a copy of the courtroom artist's depiction of them, so perhaps they were just trying to get the most out of the situation.