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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 14 2012 @ 12:14 PM EDT

As I understand (I'm not Legally educated in any sense of the phrase cept what I've learned through Groklaw) any third party can file a "friend of Court" brief. Whether or not that brief will be even glanced at is another question.

Generally the onus is on the plaintiff to prove a number of things including:

    The patent was a key selling point with customers (this helps increases the damages wanted)
while the onus is on the defendant to prove a number of things including:
    The patent was not a key selling point with customers (this helps decrease the damages wanted)
They usually do that through expert testimony.

RAS

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Damages
Authored by: mbouckaert on Tuesday, August 14 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT
Can someone maybe suggest that some people (including me) do
buy Samsung (or HTC or...) because these are *not* iPhones?

I don't want to pay to have to deal with that [expletive
deleted] ecosystem.

I don't mind automatic transmissions on cars anymore, but
this iPrison is not for me.

(and no, not my kind of cool either)

---
bck

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Damages
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 15 2012 @ 05:19 AM EDT
I accept Apple make good designs, but I doubt I would ever buy
one. For me Apple and Microsoft have for many years an image to be
very focused on legal procedures. And I would be afraid paying
legal fees in stead of design and production costs.

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Damages
Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Wednesday, August 15 2012 @ 05:21 AM EDT
Your Honour,

We would like to call all 22.7 million Samsung phone owners and ask them why
they bought the phone.

Yours, the Samsung legal team.

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Beware of him who would deny you access to information for in his heart he
considers himself your master.

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