Apple-Samsung Jury Foreman Says Google E-Mail Persuasive
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Jurors who awarded Apple Inc. more than $1 billion in its intellectual-property battle with Samsung Electronics Co. relied on e-mails describing Google Inc.’s influence to arrive at their decision.
Velvin Hogan, foreman of the nine-member panel, said yesterday in an interview that jurors went through a “meticulous” process of determining that Samsung infringed Apple’s products. When it came time to determine whether the infringement was “willful,” or intentional, “we knew where we had to go in the evidence,” Hogan said, referring to the e-mails. The e-mails included an internal 2010 Samsung message describing how Google asked it to change the design of its products to look less like Apple’s.