Samsung Electronics Co. must pay Apple Inc. $539 million for infringing patents related to the iPhone’s design, a federal jury found Thursday, a new victory for Apple in a seven-year-old legal battle over the spoils of the smartphone market’s boom.
The jury’s decision in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., increases the amount that Samsung previously was ordered to pay Apple for the patents under dispute from $399 million to $539 million. The bulk of the new damages award, $533.3 million, was for infringing three...