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Judge should have recused herself!
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 01:30 PM EDT
From my understanding this Judge worked for the Plaintiff's
law firm and is still in close contact with them. Not only
that, but she also worked for Apple on at least 9 cases. Now
I only learned of this, when there was a public push to get
her removed from the case, prior to the trial. So I may be
wrong! (IANAL)

But the F700 Design Patent is dated in December 2006. That's
an Absolute Truth and even this Judge can't change those
facts. Since it was recorded in a public record, it was also
searchable upon application by even Apple. If they'd wanted
to. So who's to say they didn't? ....and perhaps chose the
one closest in design to it.

After all, Samsung already had a phone on the market with
even more so called iPhone features and the infamous "Single
Round Physical Button" (instead of the rectangular button
they now use, that proves they didn't steal their single
physical button). This is when Apple only had their multi-
functional Shuttle Button on iPods, prior to iPhone release.
That model though, that's not mentioned in this trial, was
the SGH-Z610.

So it seems to me that if this all has been public in the
first place, what's the harm in just stating the TRUTH as
FACT, in the court of public opinion? Apple's been doing
this all along in selling their story of Samsung as "The
Copyist". Which is an open libelous assault on them in the
public to defame them, for something that hasn't been proven
as fact!

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