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CNET News - What it was like in the Apple Samsung courtoom

2012-08-27
hello I'm Sumi das with me is Josh Lowensohn staff writer for cnet this is your first day of freedom probably in the last month or so josh has been covering the apple vs samsung trial and of course we just had a verdict on friday what's the fallout so far well so far samsung example about a billion dollars oh there's that it's better than 2.5 yeah exactly it's a far cry from how much Apple want it but it's also kind of up in the air about when they have to pay that there's still a lot of things that are still up in the air and moving around so we don't have a definitive date on that yet and and it seems to me that the prevailing wisdom says that they're not going to end up having to pay that 1 billion-plus that in the appeal process perhaps the damages will be cut down correct a lot of those things are still kind of flowing and samsung cell as an opportunity to change some of those products to really keep them from infringing mm-hmm and Samsung is going to appeal right definitely yeah they've already said they're gonna appeal I just haven't filed it yeah correct and that again that's still a process that's going to happen the next few weeks in the immediate the immediate effects of this on samsung how's the house their stock doing their stock took a tumble this morning a pretty big tumble at seven percent but again I mean a big deal about this trial is the really long term effects and how they have to change their products and if they change their products but Apple their stock kind of went up didn't it yeah they're nearing an all-time high but a lot of that is actually just kind of people expecting a new phone and I new tablet in the coming weeks of course yeah it's hard to separate those two things out all right so you were in the courtroom there were no cameras allowed in there so tell us what the mood was like cuz you can only tell so much from a courtroom sketch yeah I mean a lot of it was just quiet expectation obviously been kind of a rowdy quarter in the last few few days with people got rowdy it did get a little rowdy people were just kind of getting tired of this long three-week four-week trial so a ton of the the verdict was a not so it was just basically pins and needles and the reactions that you saw from the lawyers a both defense side and plaintiff side I mean it was really interesting because for samsung losing pretty epically in fact the lawyers didn't seem to look all that concern it was kind of isine Apple was clearly kind of excited about it but both sides were getting paid either way so I don't know anything there was a lot of care and the billion dollars is not coming from the pockets of those lawyers correct correct now 2014 this all happens all over again I mean different set of patents but kind of a similar situation right tell us about that right so there's other case it's not really going to trial for another two years and that's that's about some of the newer devices so you have things like the the Galaxy Nexus this device it's still on sale whereas some of the devices that were in this trial that just wrapped up we're kind of old or from 2010 early 2011 and you'll be covering that one yeah and let's do it yeah well thanks so much for being our eyes and ears in the courtroom we couldn't have covered the case without you my pleasure Josh Lowensohn staff writer for cnet and I'm Sumi das thanks for watching inside scoop
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