The jury found that Samsung "willfully" infringed several key Apple patents
llustration: Vicki Behringer
FORTUNE -- Despite the complexity of the case and the billions of dollars at stake, the jury that heard Apple's (AAPL) patent infringement suit against Samsung needed only three days to reach a consensus.
Apple didn't get everything it asked for, but it got plenty.
As the foreperson began reading the 20-page verdict form -- which required the jurors to rule on whether more than a dozen Samsung devices made by three different Samsung divisions violated one of several Apple patents -- most of the answers were "yes" with a few "no"s scattered among them.
According to several live blogs (see here and here), the jury recommended that Apple be awarded more than $1 billion -- a figure that could grow considerably because it also found that Samsung's infringements were "willful."
As for Samsung's claims against Apple, the jury seems to have shot them all down.
It's going to take some time to digest the impact of the multipart verdict, but as The Verge's Bryan Bishop put it as he began recording the yeas and nays: "This is it. This is history."
Apple's shares, which closed at $663.22 Friday, shot up nearly $12 in after hours trading.
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