I think juries are an important part of the justice system. However, the legal standards for novelty are a bit of a mess. It would be difficult to be a plaintiff like Samsung and generate a concise story for this case under the conditions given. In particular, lots of issues and the 25 hour time limit really worked against Samsung.

In Oracle vs. Google, the issues were narrow and focused. This really helped Google.

Samsung had a much rougher hand. Essentially, the jury decided that Apple had a simple narrative "Samsung copied us", and the jury ran with the simple story. People have a huge bias to the simple story. The jury went with that narrative, and did not even read the jury instructions.

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• Juries are important - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 05:35 AM EDT
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