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After seeing interviews with the foreman, I'm surprised he wasn't struck from the jury by either side before the trial even started.

• tedunangst 14y ago
  Yes. I suspect Samsung felt he would "see through the bullshit" or whatever. Dangerous game to play.
  • lurker14 14y ago
    I keep thinking that he's some sort of (witting or unwitting) plant from Samsung, put there to taint the trial and have the whole thing discarded on appeal.
    • logn 14y ago
      Lawyers widely view trials as a crapshoot anyway. There's all sorts of risk taking and gambling involved. They probably rolled the dice that this guy is anti-patent. When a lot of engineers see the final patent (they "wrote"... with the help of lawyers) they don't even understand it themselves. I saw it done with my own patent. You send off a very nice, clear, concise technical explanation and it comes back in Greek. Plus, I have found that most software people are anti-patent because we're always failing stuff on the obviousness test.