Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman

Re:Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman by w1ntermute on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @11:17AM (#4607828)

This is a great first step, but it's going to be a long, hard battle from here on out. Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company when it comes to charges like this, one of the reasons why I feel that it should have been tried by judges, particularly considering the complex and technical nature of the subject matter.

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Re:Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman by debacle on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @11:30AM (#4607894)

> Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company

I disagree with that statement. If you read the groklaw piece linked below, the jury was actually siding with Samsung before Hogan started practicing law.

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Re:Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman by wtvanhest on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @11:27AM (#4607872)

Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company

I'm not sure if this is true. I don't think most American's see Apple as an Apple Pie type of American company. I could be wrong, but I have never heard anyone say, I bought an iPad because it is an American product.

I say this as someone who is probably more supportive of American companies and not really supportive of Apple at all, so maybe I have my own bias, but I don't think so.

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Re:Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman by randallu on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @12:15PM (#4608148)

Mostly on the radio I hear about Apple and Chinese labor, so they seem like a multinational company more than an American company even though they do "command and control" from the US.

Also they don't employ a huge number of Americans compared to other large companies (and excluding retail they remain pretty small, esp. compared to Microsoft). Maybe the valley is different too, because a large proportion of the population are immigrants.

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Re:Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman by jjtheblunt on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @01:50PM (#4608679)

More data: they employ many Americans, and the campus is filled with them (of all sorts of ancestries, not exclusively imigrants from India or China). According to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=aapl they employ a number of people adequate to sustain a revenue/employee of $2.351 million/year. The factories are not Apple's, but are contracted manufacturers, the same used by many others (Dell, etc).

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Re:Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman by sounders on Thursday October 04, 2012 @12:48AM (#4610931)

I agree with you about linking Apple and Chinese. When I think of the Apple labor force I automatically think Foxconn, which leads to thoughts of labour camps and worker suicide, not that that's the whole picture of course.

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Re:Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman by taligent on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @02:17PM (#4608851)

> Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company when it comes to charges like this.

Complete load of unsubstantiated, borderline xenophobic nonsense.

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Re:Samsung claims Apple patent verdict tainted by jury foreman by eco on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @11:03PM (#4610705)

Well, Apple did play the American company vs. foreign company card during the trial. Apple feels that it can carry some weight with the jury.

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