As Apple-Samsung trial drags on, jurors deliberate their lunch options
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.
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.
Comparison of Apple and Samsung devices. | Source: Apple v. Samsung court documents
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.
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.
Comparison of Apple and Samsung devices. | Source: Apple v. Samsung court documents
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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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.
You guys are crooks of the highest degree.
That sounds delicious!
Koh may be the worst judge on the circuit. Reduced damages and a retrial. Samsung admitted to copying Apple. What more do you need. Damages should be all profits made from every phone Samsung has sold with infringing elements.
Now that Samsung attorneys have admitted that the infringement was willful, it should be triple whatever the jury decided. So if the jury decided $100M, which brings the total damage to $700M, should Koh triple that to $2.1 billion?
Great, now the jury has to figure out who her homeboys are first.
That sounds delicious!
Even truffle-filled, bacon-wrapped steak in cream cheese becomes yucky if you have been having the same thing for a week. I would at least expect a rotating menu for the jurors. Would Koh eat the same thing everyday?
Don't know. Perhaps they already gave their left one for the (red) Mac Pro this Saturday. So they'll likely want to 'hang on' to their right one.
Samsung admitted to copying Apple. What more do you need. Damages should be all profits made from every phone Samsung has sold with infringing elements.
That's pretty muddled thinking. Suppose Sammy didn't make any profit selling 100 million infringing phones? Then the award to Apple would be zero. It's not only about how much Sammy directly profited by their infringement, but also about how much the infringement cost Apple in lost sales. As well as less tangible losses, such as negotiating power with carriers, suppliers, advertising outlets, etc., owing to Apple's market share having been reduced.
The Apples in those lunches better have been pretty tasty, or else the subliminal message to the jurors would have been that "Apple" left a foul taste in their mouth. Seems really very odd that in a trial about Apple, the jury would be fed a steady diet of apples.
Next jury note: "Your Honor, we would also like to see the wine menu."
How about some Apple cider, and perhaps some apple pie?
Yes it does but not everyday of the week.
How about some Apple cider, and perhaps some apple pie?
Samsung: Your honor! We object! The jury is obviously being biased by the menu! Mistrial!
Koh: Would you just… *sigh* Fine, whatever. What do you want to put on the menu?
Samsung: Kimchi and jeotgal.
Koh: …Stenographer, read to the court my earlier statement about crack smoking.
That's pretty muddled thinking. Suppose Sammy didn't make any profit selling 100 million infringing phones? Then the award to Apple would be zero. It's not only about how much Sammy directly profited by their infringement, but also about how much the infringement cost Apple in lost sales. As well as less tangible losses, such as negotiating power with carriers, suppliers, advertising outlets, etc., owing to Apple's market share having been reduced.
I 100% agree with you. Excellent point!