A San Jose federal judge on Friday slashed about $450 million from the $1 billion a jury awarded Apple in August in its patent feud with Samsung, the latest in a series of decisions weakening Apple’s legal assault on its smartphone and tablet rival.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh found the jury’s damages calculations were improper and excessive for more than a dozen of the Samsung devices it concluded trampled on Apple’s patent rights, and she ordered a new trial on damages for those claims.
The judge let stand nearly $600 million in damages for the jury’s findings that Samsung infringed patents in more than a dozen of its other products.
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