Apple Jury Will Be First in U.S. to Weigh Samsung Fight
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Apple Inc.’s $2.5 billion patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. began today in federal court in California with selection of the first U.S. jury to consider the global smartphone dispute.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, who practiced as an intellectual-property litigator in Silicon Valley for eight years, is presiding over the trial. Jurors will decide each company’s claims that its rival infringed patents covering designs and technology for mobile devices, with potential damage awards reaching billions of dollars.