Apple Wants Samsung to Forfeit Patent Trial as Sanction

If Apple gets its way it’ll win its high-profile patent infringement case against Samsung in San Francisco without there being much of a trial. They’ll go directly to the damages. It wants Samsung punished for attempting to influence a seated jury with a ruling from the bench that “Apple’s asserted phone-design patent claims are valid and infringed by Samsung.” “At a minimum,” it says “the Court should (i) instruct the jury that Samsung engaged in serious misconduct and that, as a result, the Court has made a finding that Samsung copied the asserted designs and features from Apple products; and (ii) preclude Samsung from further mentioning or proffering any evidence regarding the ‘Sony design exercise’ for any purpose.

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