After delivering a speedy $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung on Friday, the nine Apple v. Samsung jurors were escorted out a rear exit by court staff, leaving the throng of waiting reporters with no information about how the verdict was reached.
Now we know at least part of the answer. The nine-person panel believed that Samsung had taken a "calculated risk," and they believed that Samsung "knew or should have known what they were doing was infringing," jury foreman Velvin Hogan said in an interview today with his hometown newspaper, the San Jose Mercury-News.
Some of the most influential evidence in the jury's eyes included internal Samsung emails like the one from a designer describing the difference between the iPhone's user interface and a Samsung phone as the "difference between Heaven and Earth," as well as competitive intelligence documents where Samsung analyzed differences between its own phones and the iPhone. Also swinging the vote Apple's way was the fact that Google warned Samsung that some of its products looked too similar to Apple products.
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