Stefan Mileschin

Executives at the fruity cargo cult Apple were given a swift kick in their reality distortion field by the jury in the Samsung patent case at the end of last week.

Apple had believed that it could go before a jury in its hometown and demand $2 billion from Samsung because it honestly believed that it invented everything in the Samsung phone. Samsung admitted it had violated a few patents, but that was because Apple would not sell them at a reasonable price, and besides the IPhone had a few of its patents which Jobs' Mob had not paid for.

The jury seemed to see common sense in the case and ordered Samsung to pay $119.6 million for infringing some of its patents, while Apple owes Samsung $158,400 for infringing one of the Korean company's patents.

The jury found all of Samsung's accused gadgets infringed Apple's '647 "quick links" patent but that none infringed the '959 "universal search" patent or the '414 "background sync" patent. Results were mixed for the '721 "slide to unlock" patent, with some Samsung devices, such as the Galaxy Nexus, found to infringe, and others found not to.

Judge Lucy Koh, in a pretrial judgement, had already ruled that Samsung infringed the '172 "automatic word correction" patent, and the jury simply calculated damages. The jury awarded Apple only $119.6 million for Samsung's infringement, much less than the $2.2 billion it had wanted.

Meanwhile, the jury also decided that Apple infringed Samsung's '449 patent for photo and video organisation in folders and awarded the Korean company $158,400. Samsung had accused Apple of infringing two patents and asked for damages of about $6.2 million.

The jury will return today to reconsider one of the damages figures. It awarded Apple no damages for one version of the Galaxy S2, but Apple believes it should be awarded some money for Samsung's infringement of the '172 patent.

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