14 DAY TRIAL // The past week has been littered with reports and news about the Apple-Samsung trial in San Jose, California, but today we are going to speak of the lawsuit going forward in Sydney, Australia.
That Apple and Samsung are fighting each other over patents in several different parts of the world is quite remarkable, and not in a good way.
Still, that is the situation. Even though the jury lawsuit in San Jose, California has grabbed the spotlight, the one in Australia is proceeding as planned as well.
The most recent occurrence? Samsung accused Apple of pressuring 3G patent specialists into modifying their testimony.
The trial in Sydney, being overseen by Justice Annabelle Bennett of the Sydney Federal Court, will soon be at the stage where two or more expert witnesses give evidence simultaneously, thus explaining complex technical issues better than individual testimonies.
Apple's counsel Stephen Burley says that two changes have been made to the testimonies after they called a meeting with the three experts responsible for reports into three 3G-related patents.
Samsung wants to convince the court that Apple infringes them with its iOS devices, and it feels that the changes and the meeting itself were not appropriate.
Katrina Howard, Samsung's counsel, petitioned for the chance to cross-examine the specialists, but Justice Annabelle Bennett ruled that there would be more than enough time for questioning during the aforementioned “hot tub” stage.
All things considered, Samsung hasn't scored many points in its endeavor to prove that iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPad 2 all infringe its patents in the country for 3G packet headers and data rate matching patterns.
Meanwhile, Apple appears to have the upper hand in its quest to prove that Galaxy Tab devices should be banned, even though one authority ruled that to be false. We'd say we hope for a resolution soon if we didn't already know that the patent war would drag on.