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Corrections
Authored by: Kilz on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 06:45 PM EDT
Please list the mistake in the title of your post

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Off Topic
Authored by: Kilz on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 06:46 PM EDT
For all posts that are not on topic.

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Newspicks
Authored by: Kilz on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 06:48 PM EDT
Please list the news story's name in the title of the top
post. A link to the news story is also recommended in case it
gets bumped down and is hard to find.

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Apple Seeks a Win by Asking the Judge to Sanction Samsung ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 06:49 PM EDT

Did Apple's lawyers learn their trade by watching "Night Court"?

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Comes
Authored by: Kilz on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 06:49 PM EDT
Please list transcriptions of Comes exhibits here for PJ to
find. Please post the html as plain text so PJ can easily
copy it.

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microsoft move over? they're working *with* them!
Authored by: designerfx on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 07:04 PM EDT
Microsoft and apple share a common enemy: anyone who
innovates.

They'd probably applaud apple for this.

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  • Not necessarily - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 07:49 PM EDT
Apple Seeks a Win by Asking the Judge to Sanction Samsung ~pj
Authored by: old joe on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 07:07 PM EDT
I know you get away with a lot more of this sort of thing in the USA but did
Apple just post an article in which an Apple spokesman attempted to poison the
jury against Samsung by claiming Samsung were guilty of Contempt of Court?

Does that mean Samsung can claim unclean hands or estoppel or something?

Is there any chance that the judge might ban Samsung from introducing the design
history evidence unless Apple introduce it first.
Apple: They copied our stuff!
Samsung: Which details were copied?
Apple: The round corners No I meant the single button No I meant it being black
No I meant the fact that it fits in your hand. Yes that's it.
Samsung: Really that's it? Not much is it?

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Wow, and I thought SCO was sleazy
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 07:24 PM EDT
Tbis really takes the cake. There is a point where an honest plaintiff needs to
tell their lawyers not to lie and slander to win. Apple has clearly passed this
point and failed the honest man test.

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Filing 1545
Authored by: indyandy on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 07:27 PM EDT
Page 4:
This Court defers to the Magistrate Judge’s ultimate judgment that even if Samsung had produced some source code before the Court ordered deadline, Samsung was hardly in compliance with Judge Grewal’s Order to produce all source code (including all blue glow source code) by December 31, 2011. Even crediting Samsung’s partial compliance of source code production, it was not clearly erroneous for Judge Grewal to find that Apple was still prejudiced by Samsung’s failure to fully comply with Judge Grewal’s order to produce all source code.

Samsung, when will you learn that that when asked to supply information you must supply all the information?

page 7:

Similarly, Samsung’s response to Apple’s contention interrogatory number 12, which sought disclosure of Samsung’s theories of anticipation, obviousness, and other grounds of invalidity, contained 595 prior art references comprising 5,600 pages of documents. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, for Apple to have known which prior art references and evidence were intended to support which theory, without Samsung amending its responses to the contention interrogatories in a timely manner.

Samsung, when will you learn that when asked to supply information you cannot just submit everything?

Do try to keep up.

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  • Filing 1545 - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 08:45 PM EDT
  • Filing 1545 - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 08:51 PM EDT
Apple Patents
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 07:38 PM EDT
Samsung can't copy Apple! Apple has a patent on copying. They started by
copying Xerox and BSD so no one else should be able to copy anything.

I can't think of a bigger hypocrite. However, Microsoft competes well in this
area. Other competitors: Oracle, Sony

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MoFo?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 08:50 PM EDT
I thought MoFo was representing them.

I did not think that MoFo behaved in this manner.

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  • MoFo? - Authored by: red floyd on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 12:59 AM EDT
    • MoFo? - Authored by: red floyd on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 01:01 AM EDT
Apple Has Buttons
Authored by: mexaly on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 10:06 PM EDT
I would think that, perhaps, Samsung might use a deft touch on
those hot buttons. Perhaps they might get a nice surprise.

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get over it
Authored by: nola on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 10:23 PM EDT
Folks - Apple reinvented the cell phone. That much is clear and unambiguous.

By and large, phone before iPhone were half-screen and with keyboards. Samsung
and others were
experimenting with other ideas but nothing came together.

Until iPhone

And then *all* the phones looked like iPhone

I'm not going to participate in a discussion about the specific Apple patents,
or about patents in general,
because that's not really the core issue here. Patents might, unfortunately, be
the center of litigation but
the real issue is that the current IP scheme does not provide a better vehicle.
It should, and *that's*
what's missing from this whole debate.

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Opening doors
Authored by: Martin on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 11:09 PM EDT
If Apple in their opening statements mentioned the F700 was a copy of iphone,
aren't they not open the door for a response?

Martin.

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Judge denies Apple's sanctions request following Samsung rebuttal
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 11:35 PM EDT
From:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/02/judge_denies_ap
ples_sanctions_request_following_samsung_rebuttal.html


"In a ruling issued late Thursday in the Apple v. Samsung
trial, Judge Lucy Koh denied an Apple motion filed earlier in
the day which requested the Court hand down sanctions against
Samsung for providing excluded case evidence to the media."

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Apple Fan-Boys Hopes Rest on Technicalities
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 11:49 PM EDT

It's pretty sad when Apple's biggest fans are hoping to win on
"perceived" technicalities. It seems like a fairly tenuous position
to be in.

"Sure, Samsung could blow Apple's case out of the water if they could
present their evidence, but too-bad, so-sad the judge won't allow it."

The problem is, Apple fan-boys, Apple's case is weak anyway, but if they somehow
win in this court, the evidence will be allowed in a higher court.

So, go ahead and whistle as you walk by the graveyard and pin your hopes on
technicalities.

If Apple really had a case, you wouldn't have to rely on technicalities.

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Judge denies Apple's motion
Authored by: pem on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 12:26 AM EDT
According to AppleInsider.

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how could rounded corners be Apple invention?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 12:54 AM EDT
I can see nokia phones with rounded corners as early as 1993

http://www.newlaunches.com/entry_images/1107/12/nokia_timeline.php

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Apple Seeks a Win by Asking the Judge to Sanction Samsung ~pj Updated: Samsung Files Motion to Strike
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 03:19 AM EDT
WAAAA, teacher, that boy won't give me his lunch money even though I threatened
him...

This is becoming more and more like a school play ground tiff.

A: Waaaaa, he stole my drawing; ban him from school
S: No, I didn't, I did it all by my self
S: I've got these early designs for it
A: Waaaa, it's too late to bring that up now, Teacher don't let him show them to
J here.
T: S, you can't show J them.
S: Here, M, have these early designs you requested.
A: Waaaaa, S has shown his early designs you didn't want J to see to M against
your order and J will get to know all about them (even though J is under orders
from you not to have any contact with M); now you *have* to tell S he stole my
drawing and ban him from school
S: T didn't tell me not to give them to M - in fact M asked for them; talking of
which, what about all this stuff you gave to M bad mouthing me?

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Scorthed Earth appeals/motions?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 11:21 AM EDT
What is Samsung's ( or Apple's ) approach to making a scorched earth appeal? By "scorched Earth" I meanthat if they decide they need to appeal a ruling, need to appeal it *now* and pull out all stops.

My understanding is that they first have to file a request with the judge to file an interlocutory appeal. If the judge refuses, then they can file a writ of mandamus with the Appeals Court.

Also which court do they file it with? The 9th circuit or the CAFC?

Also, what do the parties do if they feel a judge should recuse themselves? I know the first step is to ask the judge, but what happens after that?

Finally,if a lawyer fails to bring up an argument on a point even if he has brought up that point before, is he allowed to use that argument in appeals? If they feel the circumstances change, can they argue the circumstance change in appeal if they don't raise it during the trial? What if the judge tells them not to argue the point any more, are they free to raise these issues in appeal?

Note to fan boys, especially fanboys who cry in bold about being called fanboys. These are legal questions which have definite answers. If the case law does not exist now, then whatever the decision is will set a precedent that the 9th circuit will have to live with forever, or at least until the SCOTUS over rules them. So arguments like "because it's unfair to the God of Apple Steve Jobs" don't cut it.

Ok, now seriously. Most of these questions should be well established procedures. Those that are not established procedure will set a precedent for the 9th circuit. So please stick to the abstract question OK?

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Mouse the Lucky Dog, who cannot make an account :(

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Apple already target of FSF boycott--MS hasn't achieved that!
Authored by: xtifr on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 03:07 PM EDT

Move over, Microsoft. Apple is aiming for the gold in this category, and your record as the worst ever is being challenged.
Apple already has the distinction of being the target of an active boycott by the FSF--something that Microsoft, despite all their shenanigans, has never accomplished.

Granted, this was many years ago, during the whole look-and-feel lawsuit nonsense. But for those of us who actually remember history, this whole thing seems strangely familiar. And people's surprise at Apple's misbehavior seems...surprising.

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Occam's razor
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 06:59 PM EDT
As I see it there are two ways to read Judge Koh's rulings as
far as the prior are Samsung wants to bring in. One is that
she is severely biased against Samsung. The other is that she
doesn't think Apple will win, so she is giving them every
ruling she can. That way they don't have a prayer in appeal.
It seems to me that Occam's razor leads to the later.

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