Samsung wants a new trial in Apple’s U.S....
Samsung wants a new trial in Apple’s U.S. lawsuit against the company. A federal jury in San Jose ruled Aug. 24 that Samsung had violated multiple Apple patents related to its iPhone products. The jury awarded Apple more than $1…
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billion in damages, though that award is not official until U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh makes a final ruling on the case (CD Aug 28 p6). Samsung claimed a federal jury’s verdict was tainted because jury foreman Velvin Hogan did not disclose he had filed for bankruptcy in 1993 and had been sued by Seagate Technology, a company that has a “substantial strategic relationship” with Samsung, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday night (http://xrl.us/bnsh2i). The verdict was also tainted because a lawyer who sued Hogan on behalf of Seagate is married to a lawyer that represented Samsung in the Apple lawsuit, Bloomberg reported. Hogan told Bloomberg the court instructions for potential jurors only required him to disclose lawsuits dating back 10 years, so the 1993 lawsuit was outside that time period. Samsung’s move went public a day after Koh threw out a temporary injunction barring the U.S. sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, which had also been targeted in the Apple lawsuit, because the federal jury found the tablet did not violate a design patent on Apple’s iPad (CD Oct 3 p15).