Jurors await paperwork before deciding Apple-Samsung dispute
The sheet will be about a dozen pages and will be filled with boxes requiring the jurors to check boxes with answers of either "yes" or "no" related to patent infringement claims between Apple and Samsung. But the contents of the jury form remain a point of contention between the two companies, according to The Wall Street Journal, which has left the jury awaiting a compromised version of the work sheet from Judge Lucy Koh on Monday.
Both Apple and Samsung announced to the court on Saturday that no progress had been made in narrowing each others' claims against the other company. A joint filing from both parties declared that the parties "met and conferred about case narrowing, but have not been able to narrow their cases further."
That set the stage for the trial to go to jury deliberation, but not before the remaining work sheet issues between Apple and Samsung have been decided. Samsung wants to provide jurors with a more detailed sheet that would ask jurors whether different applications within a smartphone infringe upon certain patents, while Apple seeks a more streamlined approach related to the devices themselves.
Apple and Samsung will argue on behalf of their submitted proposed verdict forms in front of Koh today, but the judge will ultimately decide what form the compromised jury work sheet will take. Samsung and Apple are required to file "no more than 16 pages of their 8 high priority objections by 8:00 a.m. on Monday," but are no longer allowed to file further objections.
Koh's patience has worn thin at times with each side during the three-week trial between Apple and Samsung. Last week, she chided Apple lawyer Bill Lee, facetiously suggesting he was "smoking crack" after he presented a list of 22 witnesses Apple wished to call to the stand.
Evolution of Samsung and Apple smartphones. | Source: Apple v. Samsung court documents
Jurors in the case have a particularly complex task of sorting out three different types of intellectual property claims related to product design, phone features, and wireless communications standards. Jorge Contreras, associate professor of law at American University Washington College of Law, told the Journal that "it is like the whole kitchen sink got thrown in there."
In addition to determining any infringement, the jury will also be asked to decide damages in the dispute. Apple announced last month that it seeks $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung, a sum that amounts to more than $30 per device sold by the Korean electronics maker.
Samsung, meanwhile, told the court last week in its closing arguments that Apple could owe nearly $422 million in royalties over five patents it owns.
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Here is the counter evidecnes before you accusing samsung....
1. Samsung alrady developed that design before iphone
Samsung design development before iphone
http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-infuriates-apple-with-iphone-evidence-leak-01241146/
2. That design is not Apple's own
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/29/apple-iphone-vs-lg-prada-separated-at-birth-part-2/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth/
LG Mobile Handset R&D Centre, Woo-Young Kwak, publicly announced the following statement:
"We consider that Apple copied the Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006."
We take that to mean "Apple stole our idea."
http://www.applematters.com/article/the-iphone-lawsuits/
3. Filder Tablet (Prior-Art of ipad)
Here is the tablet that apple copied its design.
Apple : Nothing is original
This judge is more concerned about her patience being tested than getting the rule of law correct.
[quote name="845032" url="/t/152026/jurors-await-paperwork-before-deciding-apple-samsung-dispute#post_2171410"]Here is the counter evidecnes before you accusing samsung.... [/quote] I get the impression that English isn't your first language. I also get the impression that Korean could be. LOLZ.
I also get the impression that Korean could be.
LOLZ.
The last image of Fidler holding both an iPad and his tablet mock-up is still interesting tho it may not prove anything detrimental to Apple. The image post is still appreciated as I've never seen that one before.
[quote name="845032" url="/t/152026/jurors-await-paperwork-before-deciding-apple-samsung-dispute#post_2171410"]
Apple : Nothing is original
[/quote] Yes, that's what Samsung would like you to believe. In the REAL world, Samsung's phones before the iPhone were very different. After the iPhone rumors started, Samsung started making phones that looked more like the way the iPhone ended up, but there was still some variation. After the iPhone came out, Samsung morphed their phone so it looked like a near-exact copy, down to the charger and packaging.