I found it funny when the jury foreman said "we only wanted to award a reasonable amount of damages". One billion dollars for rounded corners? I wonder if one billion dollars would have seemed like a reasonable amount of money before the financial crisis with it's monster bailouts.
If you took the time to actually read the verdict, you'd see that claim was dismissed. Also, it's not a patent on rounded corners, it's a design patent, which is essentially a patent granted on the ornamental design of a functional item that pretty much every other manufacture has managed not to plagiarise. And what the hell has the "financial crisis" got to do with this? Is suppose that's the jury's fault too now?
I'd suggest that the figure became a reasonable amount when both litigant started turning over several multiples of that figure per quarter. It's the effect of general inflatin on economies.
