In another dispute with Samsung before the court, the jury awarded Apple about US$1 billion in damages last month.

Samsung must pay Apple $1.05 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets, a California District Court jury decided on Friday.

Research In Motion said it does not believe that the patent claimed by Mformation is valid.

Toshiba said it won't have to pay its fine because of settlements paid already by other vendors.

The jury deliberated for more than a week before finding no infringement on any claims related to two Java-related patents.

Judge Alsup's ruling means the issue of fair use will likely be put to a new jury.

But the jury was deadlocked on the question of fair use.

Oracle and Google were in court Monday for the start of an eight-week jury trial over Google's use of Java in Android.

The jury was unable to agree on whether Microsoft acted to deliberately impede Novell's WordPerfect software.

Micron and Hynix did not conspire to suppress Rambus' RDRAM product, the jury says.

The judge cancelled the Oct. 31 start of the jury trial and has yet to set a new trial date.

Lawyers for Oracle and SAP are due in court Wednesday to argue post-trial motions in their TomorrowNow lawsuit, with SAP seeking a new trial and a reduction of the US$1.3 billion jury award it was ordered to pay.

Oracle will have to wait a bit longer to get its hands on the US$1.3 billion awarded to it last year by a jury in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP.

A federal judge yesterday tossed a $625.5 million patent infringement judgment against Apple, discarding a 2010 jury verdict that said the company violated patents in its iPhone, iPod, iPad and Mac OS X.

SAP wants a judge to reduce the US$1.3 billion award a jury granted Oracle last year in its intellectual property-theft lawsuit to no more than $408.7 million, and also asked for a new trial, according to filings made late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

A U.S. appeals court has restored a jury verdict in a multimillion-dollar patent infringement case against Microsoft but ordered a new trial on damages.

Oracle wants SAP to pay it US$212 million in interest on top of the $1.3 billion awarded to it last month by a jury in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, court papers show.

A jury has awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in damages in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP.

SAP has admitted to the "massive and prolonged" infringement of Oracle's copyrights and should pay at least US$1.7 billion in damages, an Oracle attorney said Monday as the companies' corporate theft lawsuit entered its final stages.

Lawyers for Oracle and SAP made their opening arguments Tuesday in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, with each side giving a very different story to the jury about how damages in the case should be calculated.