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looks like Apple is shopping around. I guess we are going to see more cases landing on the desk of Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District. Koh is obviously k
by tooltalk 8y ago
looks like Apple is shopping around.
I guess we are going to see more cases landing on the desk of Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District. Koh is obviously known for her landmark decisions in Apple vs Samsung and other cases that overtly favored Apple. Samsung, for instance, despite having won a ITC case and a SCOTUS decision on limiting damage on design infringement, saw their ITC victory reversed/pardoned by Obama and Apple's hometown jury rewarding almost everything Apple had asked for.
Legal observers see it's no coincidence that the FTC filed their on-going antitrust case against Qualcomm in Koh's court, in Apple's front yard.
- throwaway_0x00 8y agoSounds exactly like what Samsung's secret trolling dept. was spreading a while ago. All "Samsung men" work hard, as the saying goes, eh. It's a well-known "secret" in Korea that Samsung operates trolling department, staffed with full timer employees, salaried with perks, under cover. When an expose was published about 10 years ago, it was claimed the department employed 150 people, but who knows how many now. Posting as a throwaway for obvious reasons.
- macintux 8y agoThe litigants decide where to file suit. Apple can't shop for courts when they're the defendant, except in this case by specifically avoiding the jurisdiction of one court that's a dramatic outlier.
- tooltalk 8y agoActually, while it's not common, a change in legal venue is perfectly legal and Apple knows how to play the game (see Google vs Rockstar, which, once upon a time, was Apple's patent trolling operation in the Eastern District of Texas).