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| Authored by: designerfx on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 08:22 AM EDT |
with a judge going "everything should be public", it's quite a
bit of mixed signals to be angry that something has been made
public. Even beyond the irony/contradiction to the general
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- I agree - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 09:45 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 09:08 AM EDT |
Samsung's lawyers are not idiots. I have no doubt that they could have blocked
this release if they wanted. But did they want?
The question here is, is releasing this information to the public likely (in the
opinion of Samsung's lawyers) to do them more good than if they merely avoid
really angering the Judge?
I suspect that the answer to that is probably "yes". They thought that
the evidence was important to present, and were blocked from presenting it. They
then ran through every legal argument, presenting several motions to reconsider,
the lawyer went as far as to beg for a reconsideration. This was rebuffed.
Trying to bring it up in appeal would have been a lengthly proposition...
So I can see why Samsung would have wanted to do this. Yes, it will bias the
judge against them, but it seems that they feel the judge is already
sufficiently biased against them that it won't make a significant difference. So
what's important here is the jury, not the judge.
And the judge can't call them out for this behaviour in front of the jury
without telling the jury what Samsung did - and in the process, telling them
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| Authored by: cricketjeff on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 09:38 AM EDT |
Which evil predecessor are they emulating, SCO angered the judged and lost
(although by abusing legal process they seem to have avoided actually losing
anything except the case) M$ angered their judge and got the verdict thrown out
on appeal because angry judges rarely look impartial.
I have no idea if that was their thinking or even makes sense, but I do wonder
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 10:52 AM EDT |
It seems astonishing that Koh denied Samsung the opportunity to show that the
iPhone, like all Apple products made this millennium, is someone else's design
with an Apple logo and a Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field added.
Having this pointed out both puts the press on notice that there's bias afoot,
and being called on it might make Koh mad enough to pull a Jackson and get
Samsung a do-over.
If they feel that they're being set up by the judge, they might as well say so.
It does - demonstrably and famously - happen, and there are remedies for it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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