Apple-Samsung judge considers possible juror misconduct - coaxumdevens

The judge who presided over the patent litigation between Apple and Samsung Electronics said she will consider Samsung's concern that the foreman of the jury had concealed relevant information.

A panel in CA decided in August that the South Korean company must pay Apple United States of America$1.05 billion for infringing several of its patents in Samsung smartphones and tablets.

Samsung has, however, asked for a new trial of the grammatical case, alleging that the foreman of the jury, Velvin Hogan, was untruthful and slanted. In the voir dire, a court procedure of questioning potential jurors for potential bias, Hogan did non mention that he had been sued aside his former employer, Seagate, for breach of contract subsequently he failed to repay a speech act billet in 1993 and filed for bankruptcy half a dozen months later, according to the filing on October 2.

Samsung has a "satisfying strategic relationship with Seagate," and is the bingle largest direct shareholder of the hard drive manufacturer after selling it a business organization division last year, it aforesaid in the filing.

On October 30, Samsung filed a motion to compel Orchard apple tree to disclose the circumstances and timing of Apple's discovery of certain info regarding the jury foreman.

Judge Lucy H. Koh of the District Court for the Northern Dominion of California, San Jose division, wrote in her order on Th that the court leave consider the questions "of whether the jury foreperson concealed information during voir dire, whether whatever concealed information was material, and whether any privateness constituted mismanage."

"An assessment of much issues is intertwined with the question of whether and when Apple had a duty to disclose the circumstances and timing of its discovery of information about the foreperson," Evaluate Koh wrote.

The court leave savoir-faire Samsung's motility to compel at a December 6 hearing. If the tourist court grants the motion, it will likely order supplemental briefing before ruling on Samsung's motion for assessment as a question of law, Koh aforesaid.