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A comment on Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent invalidated by USPTO. Parent comment

Re:Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent invalidated by USPTO by CamperBob2 on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @07:21PM (#4945628)
Yeah, I don't get the impression that Samsung's lawyers were the snappiest sharks at the beach. Their incompetence at letting Hogan slip through voir dire is hard to get past... unless they saw it as a deliberate opportunity to have an unfavorable verdict thrown out, I guess.
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Re:Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent invalidated by USPTO by thirdtruck on Thursday December 20, 2012 @11:08AM (#4948365)
I would give the team some credit, given the time constraints (they had a lot of other jurors to check, too), and the degree of apparent deception or confusion on Hogan's own part.

Consider timelines, too. Even with all of the oddities in the jury results, the degree of Hogan's specific involvement in swaying the jury only came light after his own public interviews.

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