Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial
by tooltalk on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:37PM
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Well, I think average HN'er has much better judgement over average Joe jury in Apple's hometown on technical design and patent issues. The role (or problem) of non-technical jury in highly technical patent litigation is also often debated in academia too.
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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial
by saagarjha on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:59AM
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> average Joe jury in Apple's hometown
Keep in mind that most of the people in Apple's hometown are have graduate degrees and work in the technology industry…though, it's likely that they wouldn't be selected for the jury at this trial.
Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial
by tooltalk on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:10PM
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I was surprised to find that only two of the first jury had any technical background at all. In that case however one such member helped to ignore the jury instruction and somewhat mislead the rest.