apple v. samsung

The trial that could reshape the market for mobile phones is about to come to some kind of closure.

There's one more day of legal house cleaning before closing arguments begin in Apple v. Samsung, the patent dispute between two of the biggest players in smartphones.

In a lawsuit filed last year, Apple accused Samsung of stealing some of the ideas and technology behind the iPhone and iPad. Samsung countersued and alleged Apple violated some of its patents.

On Monday, the parties will likely continue arguing over what instructions the judge will give the jury. Once that's concluded, … Read more

Apple and Samsung are once again going to try to come to terms on their bitter patent lawsuit, a new report claims.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung chief executive Kwon Oh Hyun will hold a telephone conversation today to see if they can find a resolution to their ongoing patent dispute, Bloomberg is reporting, citing sources. The discussion comes after U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh asked the sides to meet and discuss their mutual differences.

But it seems highly unlikely that the sides will come to terms. Back in May, Judge Koh had asked Apple and Samsung … Read more

Apple and Samsung told a federal judge yesterday that they have been unable to reduce the number of claims against each other in their ongoing patent infringement lawsuit, increasing the likelihood that the jury will decide their high-stakes dispute.

Despite being "pathologically optimistic" that the two companies would settle the case before it reached the jury's hands, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh earlier this week had once again asked them to pare down the claims against one another. In May, Koh ordered Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung, as well as their … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- With both sides now out of time, the end to the trial between two of the biggest companies in tech draws ever nearer to a close.

Apple and Samsung today both ran through the last few hours -- or in Samsung's case, just minutes -- of their allotted 25 hours for rebuttals and clarifications.

Still ahead are closing arguments in which the two companies get their last chance to convince a jury of nine that the other company is infringing on its technology. A decision in either direction could result in millions -- even billions … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- Hours after chiding Apple for stacking up too many witnesses, the judge in the case between Apple and Samsung turned her attention to what she considered a strategical blunder on Samsung's part.

The company, she said, had burned up its time on cross-examining Apple's witnesses, versus presenting its case.

After each in a train of Apple witnesses were through with their testimony, Samsung passed on trying to cross-examine them, citing a lack of time. As a result, Apple has been able to run witness after witness with little resistance.

When the court was about … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Tempers boiled over in court this morning, with the judge in the case between Apple and Samsung flat out yelling at Apple for trying to book too many witnesses in its last few hours.

"I am not going to be running around trying to get 75 pages of briefings for people who are not going to be testifying," U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh told Apple's lawyer Bill Lee.

"I mean come on. 75 pages! 75 pages! You want me to do an order on 75 pages, (and) unless you're smoking … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The $2.4 billion Apple says Samsung earned on devices with Apple's looks and technology is certainly a hefty sum, but about $1.7 billion off, according to Samsung.

To prove that, the company called on Michael Wagner, a former partner at PriceWaterhouse with 36 years of calculating corporate damages, who said that Apple's own damages expert had left out major parts of Samsung's financial data when making its calculation.

"[Apple's] total calculation of total profits did not include the total cost to figure out the profits," Wagner told the … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Aiming to save the jury a headache, the judge in the trial between Apple and Samsung here once again reminded both sides to pare down some of the claims against one another and settle.

"Are there trades that can be made?" U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh asked lawyers from both companies, adding that she hoped there could be some "horse trading" between the two before the jury sits down to decide the winner.

Koh spent much of the week asking both companies to sort out some of the claims -- … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif.--There has been very little shortage of internal documents from the trial between Apple and Samsung, and today came with another goodie.

In an internal report from the 3GSM Congress Trade Show in 2007 (mis-marked as 2006 in evidence, as discussed here in court today), Apple does some chest-thumping, pointing out the fact that even though it was not there, the company's presence was the talk of the town.

"Although Apple was not present showcasing the iPhone, we were quietly setting the tone and were mentioned in each media, operator and handset vendor discussion," … Read more