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I suspect the real reason for the Best Buy returns feedback is that people buy ...
Edmond
The 3rd party "Best Buy" report which is coincidental to the case and documents ...
Frustrations bubble over in Apple versus Samsung
Rick Merritt
8/6/2012 11:24 PM EDT
Heated exchanges
After the jury was excused for the day, attorneys for both sides argued several points about testimony expected Tuesday.
At one point Judge Lucy Koh became frustrated with Apple for bringing up points for reconsideration. She told Apple she would hear its arguments again only if they were willing to take the time out of the 25 hours she has allotted each side to argue before the jury. Apple agreed and argued its point for nearly 20 minutes.
Both sides have filed so many motions and requests to reconsider motions that all parties have at times forgotten what the latest rulings on the motions were. At least twice Judge Koh asked attorneys to provide more carts to handle the stacks of binders of paperwork building up in the case.
“You are slicing the baloney too thin,” Koh told one attorney during the afternoon arguments.
Later, Apple’s lead attorney asked Koh how she will handle pleas for an extension of their time with the jury. “We are now limiting our examinations because we are meeting your honor’s time limits,” he said.
“I am not granting anyone an extension,” Koh said. “I had a [timed] trial where I stopped an attorney in mid-sentence, look it up,” she said.
After the jury was excused for the day, attorneys for both sides argued several points about testimony expected Tuesday.
At one point Judge Lucy Koh became frustrated with Apple for bringing up points for reconsideration. She told Apple she would hear its arguments again only if they were willing to take the time out of the 25 hours she has allotted each side to argue before the jury. Apple agreed and argued its point for nearly 20 minutes.
Both sides have filed so many motions and requests to reconsider motions that all parties have at times forgotten what the latest rulings on the motions were. At least twice Judge Koh asked attorneys to provide more carts to handle the stacks of binders of paperwork building up in the case.
“You are slicing the baloney too thin,” Koh told one attorney during the afternoon arguments.
Later, Apple’s lead attorney asked Koh how she will handle pleas for an extension of their time with the jury. “We are now limiting our examinations because we are meeting your honor’s time limits,” he said.
“I am not granting anyone an extension,” Koh said. “I had a [timed] trial where I stopped an attorney in mid-sentence, look it up,” she said.
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tpfj
8/7/2012 12:58 PM EDT
It does not help, nor is it fair, to just look at the front side of a product. There are 5 other sides that a design patent has to cover.
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ruserious
8/7/2012 2:05 PM EDT
The copy does not have to be exact for the patent to be infringed. It only has to be "substantially similar".
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markhahn
8/7/2012 2:10 PM EDT
Bressler is an idiot to be so much Apple's sock puppet, even for $75k. It's simply not true that people spend over $500 on products that, at a glance, seem similar. Even so, doesn't that factoid actually work AGAINST Apple, who is trying to prove that Samsung damaged Apple's sales? At the very least, it indicates that Apple customers are vapid twits. oops!
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JONG
8/7/2012 2:16 PM EDT
It's absurd to argue that one can not tell the difference between the Apple phone and Samsung phone when the brand name is written on the phone. It takes a blind person. Even then,the blind person can tell the difference by touching the phones.
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Edmond
8/7/2012 2:20 PM EDT
The 3rd party "Best Buy" report which is coincidental to the case and documents "reason for return" will be damaging to samsung.
Besides, anyone working in the lectronics industry knows samsung is a blatant, international pirate of intellectual property.
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R.J.D.
8/7/2012 5:13 PM EDT
I suspect the real reason for the Best Buy returns feedback is that people buy the Galaxy as a much cheaper tablet, have buyers remorse and the reason they give to the Best Buy clerk (to ensure they take it back) is 'I thought it was an ipad'.
They knew what it was, just didn't like it.
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