" From neoware on Yahoo
'In an update posted on LinkedIn, Al Sabawi, a former I.B.M. executive and founder of Quantopix, a software company, said Samsung deserved to lose.
To all the lazy copycats out there who think cutting and pasting is an intellectual achievement, that hard work, sweat and tears don't matter, that ideas, designs, and innovations can be stolen willy-nilly with no consequences: This is to you.
Paul O'Brien, founder of MoDaCo, a site focused on Windows smartphones, said this sounded like good news for Microsoft and its Windows phone platform.
Hear that noise? That's the sound of Android manufacturers ringing Microsoft right now.
Robert Barr, executive director of University of California-Berkeley's Center for Law and Technology, spelled out what this would mean for the tech industry as a whole. It's going to make it very difficult for not only Samsung but for other companies to mimic the Apple products:
Each of the patents cover a particular feature of the iPhone and the iPad. You can still make a smartphone, like the Microsoft Windows phone made by Nokia. It has a different look than the iPhone, different appearance and different features. That would be an example that is unaffected by this. The important thing here is that Apple's patents were upheld as valid. Other companies are going to have to avoid the patents or license them. Even though this jury upheld them, other companies still get a shot. They can come in with new evidence and attack them. You have to have new reasons and new evidence.
The amount of damages is extraordinary. A billion dollars in damages is extra. It's one of the biggest patent verdicts ever. That's a huge amount of damages. And the judge has to now decide whether to increase that for the wilfulness. And the judge could increase that as much as triple. The judge has to still decide if there will be an injunction against future sales or a recall of product.
Even though people can come back and attack them, they are going to need new evidence and it's going to be difficult.'
thanks to the reporter... "
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