Samsung, Apple both infringed patents

A federal jury ordered Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday to pay US$119 million in damages to its archrival Apple Inc. for violating some of the iPhone maker's patent rights, but the amount was much smaller than what Apple sought from the South Korean smartphone maker as the jury rejected some of Apple's copying claims. In a high-stakes case over smartphone patents, the jury in a federal court in California also found Apple infringed some of Samsung's patents and ordered it to pay its rival $158,400 in damages. Apple has claimed that the South Korean electronics giant should pay more than $2 billion in damages for copying iPhone features.