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ELECTRONICS GIANT SAMSUNG has been ordered to pay rivals Apple nearly $300 million after a jury found that a previous award of over $600 million wasn’t enough.
The jury yesterday awarded the iPhone manufacturer the full amount that it had requested in losses because of patent infringements.
“For Apple, this case has always been about more than patents and money,” Apple said.
“It has been about innovation and the hard work that goes into inventing products that people love. While it’s impossible to put a price tag on those values, we are grateful to the jury for showing Samsung that copying has a cost.”
A jury last year ruled that Samsung had infringed on five Apple patents related to the iPhone’s design and functionality.
Samsung’s lawyer however accused Apple of trying to own “beautiful and sexy”.
“Apple has tried to mischaracterse these patents so they are the iPhone,” David Price said.
But these patents are very narrow. Apple doesn’t own beautiful and sexy.
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Uisce Eireann don’t have crews. It’s local authority staff carrying out the repairs.
@Declan MacAuley: More sub standard services on display. At this one moment in time we’re closer to a third world country than anything else.
Why is “Irish water”providing electricity generators for hospitals? Surely hospitals have their own generators?!
@Zmeevo Libe: Not chance. The lotto size salaries and pensions for the thousands of useless HSE managers, directors and executives has to be paid first.
Silly things like generators etc are not even on the radar.
@Zmeevo Libe: From reading this I understand it to be they are providing generators to the Irish Water sites that have lost power that supply the hospital so any other private people supplied form the site will also have water.
@Chris Lynch: Don’t be coming in here with facts and stuff. It’s ruining the whiners buzz.
Is it 700,000+ people or 700,000+ homes?
@Kevin Farrell: 700k homes, but this includes businesses if I remember the figure correctly.
It’s to rain tomorrow, so put a few containers under each of the gutters down pipes and collect the water for flushing the jacks
lol… ‘progress’
1) Run down existing services.
2) Charge for service.
3) Water meters.
An essential service like water supply and these idiots at Irish Water don’t have backup generators at treatment plants? Unbelievable and shameful.
They say to check their website for local supply issues. Their site shows no issues in my area which hasn’t had water since yesterday morning. They’re jokers.
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