Apple v. Samsung jury foreman says the “consumer is the loser”

The jury foreman in the latest round of the Apple v. Samsung patent showdown said Monday that the "consumer" was clearly the biggest loser following the conclusion of the month-long trial.

"Ultimately, the consumer is the loser in all this," foreman Thomas Dunham, a retired IBM supervisor, told the San Jose Mercury News. "I'd like to see them find a way to settle. I hope this (verdict) in some way helps shape that future."

The trial wrapped up on Monday, but the bulk of it was largely decided Friday. The jury awarded Apple $120 million, a fraction of the $2.2 billion it was seeking from Samsung for infringing the Cupertino-based company's iPhone technology, including its slide-to-unlock tech. Samsung sought $38 million, and it was awarded about $160,000 after Apple was found infringing two of Samsung's patents.

"We didn't feel either one was fair and just compensation," Dunham said.

In 2012, a different San Jose federal jury decided that Samsung should pay Apple roughly $1 billion for copying iPhone and iPad technology. Jurors in the latest case said they were unaware of that earlier verdict.

In light of the recent decisions, Apple said the verdict proved that "Samsung willfully stole our ideas and copied our products."

Samsung countered Monday, as lead attorney John Quinn took a verbal shot at jurors:

Of course we're pleased that the jury awarded Apple six percent of what they were asking for. But even that can’t stand, because Apple kept out all the real world evidence and didn’t produce anything to substitute for it, so you have a verdict that's unsupported by evidence—and that's just one of its problems. In post-trial motions and on appeal, we will ask the judge and the federal circuit to cut the six percent verdict to zero, which is where it should end.