Neil Hughes
More than week into the retrial between Apple and Samsung, jurors are still deliberating how much money to award Apple for patent infringement by Samsung. But the jury has already come to a negative conclusion about their daily sourdough bread sandwiches.
Grilled gorgonzola and apple on sourdough, via Mini Baker.
Jurors this week asked Judge Lucy Koh to grant them new options for lunch after eating sourdough bread for the last week, according to The Wall Street Journal. In a note to Koh, jurors asked for a new lunch order during Thursday's proceedings, with the word "please" underlined three times.
So far, jurors have spent a day and a half deliberating the case, but they have yet to reach a decision. They have been instructed that the award for patent infringement granted to Apple should be between $52 million and $380 million.
The eight-member jury is re-hearing the original case, in which Apple was awarded $1.05 billion. But Koh subsequently reduced the damages award, and ordered the retrial.
As the jury asked for a new lunch option on Wednesday, Samsung asked the court to halt the trial, citing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's invalidation of a key Apple patent related to the "pinch to zoom" gesture. Apple has been given one day to respond to the motion to stay.
Closing remarks were given by both sides in the trial on Tuesday, setting the stage for the jury's deliberations. Apple's attorneys said the company has a chance to be "made whole" by reinstating $380 million in vacated damages, while Samsung's lawyers argued that Apple exaggerated the importance of the five patents involved in the case.
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"while Samsung's lawyers argued that Apple exaggerated the importance of the five patents involved in the case" Samcrum: try to build a phone without pinch to zoom and see if anybody will buy your shit. Not that with it, your shit stinks less anyway.
This is not boding well for Samsung. Their stall tactic is pissing off the jury... and with sourdough bread sandwiches. There's sort of a poetic ring to that. Samsung is sour about giving up their dough and the jury has to eat it... hmm...
Sammy O Sammy you guys suck big time. Everything you guys do are just going to backfire at you when more customers like me pledge never to have any product that bares a samsung logo into the house. You guys are crooks of the highest degree.
Next jury note: "Your Honor, we would also like to see the wine menu."
Judge Koh: You'll get proper food when you release my homeboys from any wrongdoing... Biatches!