Japan's Intellectual Property High Court ruled that Samsung could claim $98,000 from its US rival for use of Samsung's data transmission technology, found to have been used in Apple's iPhone 4 and iPad 2. Early this month in Silicon Valley, jurors at a different patent trial held the line on its $119.6 million damages award to Apple in a patent battle with Samsung. While the amount of the award is huge, it is only a fraction of the more than $2 billion Apple had sought at the outset of the trial against is South Korean competitor in the hot smartphone and tablet computer market. Jurors agreed that Samsung violated three of five Apple patents at issue in the two-month trial. Jurors also found that Apple violated a Samsung patent and said Apple should pay its rival $158,400 in damages. Interestingly, the ongoing patent battle is forcing both Apple and Samsung to spend huge sums on legal activities without deriving any substantial results.