Apple vs. Samsung trial gets its jury

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The Apple-Samsung patent war goes 'hardcore'.



The long-anticipated Apple vs. Samsung trial kicked off this Monday with jury selection in San Jose, California.

The first day of the (patent wars) trial between Apple and Samsung wrapped up with a jury in hand.

U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh (who has previously 'ruled' in favor of Apple) will preside, and the court now has 10 jurors, who will hear testimony and decide the case.

On the way to that selection, potential jurors were asked myriad questions ranging from what gadgets they owned to whether they worked for either company. Such a question was an important one given where the trial is taking place. The U.S. District Court here in San Jose is just a few miles away from Apple's nearby Cupertino headquarters.

As it turned out, both a Google and Apple employee were in the pool of potential jurors, along with numerous former tech workers. Those two individuals did not make it into the final group, though a man who told the court that he had once been involved with a patent-related lawsuit made it on the final jury, which is made up of 7 men and 3 women.

So, Apple's effort is focused on getting billions in damages from Samsung, as well as potentially keeping some of its most popular products off store shelves. Meanwhile Samsung said Apple's suit against it threatens to "stifle" innovation among other device-makers if Apple is successful.

Opening arguments are expected this Tuesday, and Apple will be allowed to reference Steve Jobs...

Samsung's legal team started the day by focusing on the upcoming opening statments. The company was hoping to incorporate additional materials in its presentation‚ including references to Shin Nishibori's Sony-inspired iPhone design experiment, and was also looking to strike references to Steve Jobs in Apple's own presentation (you may recall that Judge Lucy Koh previously ruled that Jobs' comments about going "thermonuclear" on Android wouldn't be introduced into the trial).

Samsung's counsel said it feared raising Jobs would turn the trial into a "popularity contest", but Koh overruled the objection; the fate of the company's own presentation slides will be decided in a hearing tomorrow morning.

And, the trial is expected last through the end of August.

Koh, who is presiding over the case, said that the evidence portion is slated to wrap up as soon as August 17, but more likely the 20 or 21. After that, the jury begins its deliberation.

Who will win? Make your bets!

NEWS SOURCE #1: Apple Samsung trial gets its jury (via) CNET
NEWS SOURCE #2: Apple vs Samsung jury selected (via) TheVerge

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!

[DEDDOA]

Fingers crossed it's Samsung, tho Apple will likley win in an American court even tho they really need to be taken down a peg or 2. Apple do tend to be allowed to get away with a hell of a lot that even the likes of MS get a balling for, I am still waiting on Apple being made to do the same as MS are forced to do with the frequent desktop option to use other browsers and the like, mind you I guess it's just an admission on the whole that OS X is not that popular an OS even if Apple fans do shout louder than the rest. Ironically I am typing this in on Mountain Lion, what can I say, I was bored and wanted to see if it installed ok on my old PC (as usual no real problems on older hardware but a nightmare on my X78 gaming machine and not much better on my old X58 board, yeah I know I don't really need it on there but I refuse to beaten by Apple, not to mention where is the fun if it's easy :P).

[Battlefield]

Samsung must win, but i doubt an Korean company can ever win in USA. Americans is like this.. If its not American, then **** it.