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Apple could owe up to $422 million to Samsung.

  Samsung called up two more witnesses to the stand today to explain calculations that claim Apple owes Samsung quite a bit in royalties for infringing on Samsung patents. Vincent O’Brien, a damages expert, expressed to the court that for two of Samsung’s patents, Apple should pay$22.8 million. You may be thinking that $22.8 million isn’t much…

Patent War: Samsung rejected $30 a unit deal

As the patent war between Apple and Samsung rages on, more and more information is being spilled out into the open that had previously been kept in the dark. On Friday, we discovered that last year Apple offered to settle the whole fiasco, by offering Samsung a licencing fee of $30 per smartphone and $40 dollars a tablet. In August 2010,…

Apple files complaint to EC over Motorola patent conduct

It must seem like Apple is in a constant legal battle with the likes of Motorola and Samsung, and to be quite honest, they are. Like children squabbling in the playground they fight name-calling with name-calling, lawsuit with lawsuit. Like all spoilt children however, Apple has grown tired of petty games and tattled on Motorola. On Friday Motorola…