The latest chapter in the years-long battle between mobile device makers Samsung and Apple concluded today with a federal court jury in San Jose ordering Samsung to fork over a total of $598 million in damages for patent infringement.

At issue are various features of the iPhone and iPad, which were patented by Apple and which it claims the Korea-based Samsung copied in order to lift itself from being a small player in the mobile phone market to being the largest maker of the devices in the world today.

Samsung's attorneys, however, have argued that Apple can't own the sole right to make a sexy-looking, rounded-corner cell phone, and that their patents are invalid. Samsung also argues that Apple stole technology from them.

Apple complains that the Cupertino-based company should rightfully own the largest market share today, but that three years ago Samsung began profiting from design elements and functionality that they created in their Android model phones.

The verdict concerns 13 different Samsung devices that the jury concludes copied elements of Apple devices. The courtroom exhibit above shows how Samsung adapted the design of its tablet device after the release of the iPad. In addition to physical design elements, software look-and-feel elements (something Apple has taken pride in since the Windows patent wars of the 90s) like the pinch-to-zoom functionality, patented by Steve Jobs, and the "rubber-band effect" when scroll through iPhone screens and reaching the end.

This is the second trial concerning the same devices and infringements, after U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh (the same judge who's been handling all the complaints against Google) ordered an earlier verdict be thrown out. She concluded that a jury last year that awarded Apple a $1 billion settlement had miscalculated the amount of damages Apple was owed. She threw out $450 million of those damages, and the new verdict recalculates that amount down to $290 million. As Endgadet explains, that brings the total amount awarded to Apple to $598 million, though Samsung is expected to appeal this verdict as well. (The earlier verdict regarding the actual infringement of patents still stands, and this was just about the money owed.)

And NO, Samsung has not paid any settlement to Apple in truckloads of nickels. That report is flying around Facebook today and is a hoax based on a 2012 Spanish humor piece that followed the first verdict.

There is another trial already scheduled for March in which Apple is taking Samsung to task for infringements involving a group of newer devices.

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[AP/ABC News]

Previously: Apple's $1 Billion Triumph: Jury Rules Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents