apple v. samsung

The attempt to goad Apple and Samsung into settling at least part of their ongoing patent dispute has apparently been fruitless.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Kwon Oh Hyun were asked by U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh to discuss possible resolutions of their patent litigation, which is nearly in jurors' hands. However, that conversation failed to break the deadlock between the two companies.

"The CEOs did speak... [but] there was no resolution," Samsung counsel Kevin Johnson told Koh late this afternoon.

The court-mandated conversation was an 11th-hour attempt to settle the companies' high-stakes charges … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Facing disclosure to a jury that both Apple and Samsung failed to uphold document retention laws, the two companies struck a deal to keep the matter private.

The offer came during a public hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh earlier today as both sides hashed out last-minute jury instructions and the particulars of a verdict form.

After Koh told Apple that she would be siding with Samsung over a retaliatory filing that would require her to tell jurors that both companies failed to retain e-mails (and other documents that might be critical to … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple and Samsung brought out high-paid experts to figure out what each company owed the other in damages, but how will a jury of average Americans do when they get to make that decision?

That's on the mind of U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh, who expressed concern about the outcome while both companies hash out some last-minute arguments today.

"I am worried we might have a seriously confused jury here," Koh told legal counsel from both companies. "I have trouble understanding this, and I have spent a little more time … Read more

Apple argued today that Samsung Electronics's Galaxy Nexus copies many of the key features of the iPhone, including voice-control Siri, and should be banned from the U.S.

The argument is a rehash of points made during an initial clash between Apple and Samsung in a Northern California district court, a case in which Apple successfully won. Samsung appealed the ruling, and the two companies are at it again in a U.S. appeals court in D.C.

The case is separate from the ongoing trial between the two technology behemoths going on in San Jose, Calif. While that … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- While the majority of the exhibits in the case between Apple and Samsung are commercially-available products and electronic documents, there's one peculiarity that stands out.

That would be a re-creation of the Fidler tablet, a skunkworks project out of publishing conglomerate Knight Ridder that very well could have changed both the technology and media industries had it seen the light of day. Roger Fidler worked with a team on a media tablet prototype when he ran the Knight Ridder Information Design Lab in the early 1990s.

The product never made it to market, of course. … Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- There is little doubt that the trial between Apple and Samsung taking place here is complex, and perhaps nowhere is that clearer than in the form that jurors will have to fill out on their way to reaching a verdict later this week.

The document, which both sides have yet to agree on, is still in its draft stage. In Samsung's case, it's 33 questions long, and stretched across 17 pages. For Apple, it's 23 questions spread over nine pages.

Jurors, who will soon hear closing arguments from both sides, as well as … Read more

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