14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung may have angered the Judge overseeing the patent trial between it and Apple, in San Jose, California, but Apple hasn't been making that much better of an impression.
As the final hours allotted to the trial approached, Apple tried to extend the period through saying that one of its witnesses could only come to the stand next week.
When that failed to prevent Judge Lucy Koh from flatly denying the request for an extension, the Cupertino company submitted a 75-page document listing 22 witnesses it could have called to rebuff Samsung's patent infringement claims, or argue that Samsung copied the iPad.
Koh was not amused in the least, knowing the looming deadline, and the frustration accumulated over the past couple of weeks finally made her speak her mind.
“I mean come on. 75 pages! You want me to do an order on 75 pages. Unless you’re smoking crack, you know these witnesses aren’t going to be called when you have less than four hours,” U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said.
"I am not going to be running around trying to get 75 pages of briefings for people who are not going to be testifying."
Indeed, the words we used in the title did not come from us, but from the Judge herself. Apple's lawyer Bill Lee assured her that he was not smoking crack, but that did not prevent many of the people keeping track with the lawsuit online from cheering Koh on for her boldness anyway.
Apple's legal counsel tried to argue that it was certain it could go through all the witnesses in the time it had left (four out of 25 hours) and that some of the people listed there were Samsung's witnesses, not its own, but agreed to cut parts of the document.
It had more to lose from it in the end though. As the discussion went on, Koh decided that the time wasted on it would come out of the remaining trial time.