Chapter 861: Deliver a fatal blow to Samsung

Fight for this. The lawyer group on the side of the Tang Dynasty Company also made additions. After all, to be able to come up with such evidence, they also have a trick. For example, when Samsung's legal team showed that multi-touch actually existed for a long time, not necessarily a product of Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty lawyer group said, "Although Samsung said that multi-touch technology did appear before Tang Dynasty smartphones, their multi-touch is not the same as the multi-touch in Tang Dynasty smartphones." Tang Dynasty Company uses multi-touch to zoom in and out of the picture. However, the previous multi-touch technology did not use this part, nor did it achieve such a function. Therefore, this proves that what Samsung copied is also the multi-touch ...... of Tang Dynasty Company"

The judge and the jury pondered for a moment, but did not give an answer in court.

Of course, the trial is still not over, and the Tang Dynasty Company has evidence.

However, at this time, it took a lot of time from the presentation of various documents in court and the presentation of evidence by the two parties. In particular, in the first and second pieces of evidence, the lawyers of the two parties fought inextricably. Even in the jury, the testimony of both parties is being considered.

For the sake of fairness and to better clarify her thinking, Judge Gao Lanhui announced an adjournment.

This adjournment will not last long, and the court will continue tomorrow at the same time.

However, the adjournment does not mean the end of the trial, he is just to accumulate it slowly**.

In this trial of the century, countless people around the world have paid great attention to this lawsuit.

When Gao Lanhui announced the adjournment, all kinds of news were also disseminated among the media.

For example, the model of U.S. law compares with other countries.

There is a jury in the courtroom. And it's a lot more. Their powers, combined. Not necessarily lower than the judge.

And because of this. Many media believe that in order to win this lawsuit, it is not only necessary to gain the trust of the presiding judge, but also at the same time. And let the jury decide that justice is on your side. Therefore, the explanation of the lawyers of the two parties when they elaborate on various types of evidence. That's why it's important. Because, it's directly related to whether they will admit your evidence.

Of course, there are also media outlets. Why did the Tang Dynasty and Samsung bother so much to fight this lawsuit.

They think. The strategic factor is greater than the compensation.

Although it seems that the compensation claim that Tang Dynasty Company is talking about is more than 2 billion US dollars. Even if the judge sentenced Samsung to pay more than $2 billion in compensation to Tang Dynasty on the spot, for them, it would only hurt some cash flow. A giant company like Samsung can't be seriously damaged. The real penalty is the ban on the sale later. As long as the ban is opened. It's a fatal blow to any company.

Because the ban is equal to. You don't own the market anymore, you're out.

This is worse than a direct fine.

At the same time, the two companies are so bothered to fight the lawsuit, they also want to send a signal to the world.

That is, Tang Dynasty wants the world to know that Samsung is copying their products.

Yes, although many people now believe that Samsung copied the products of the Tang Dynasty Group. However, in the absence of formal legal recognition, this copy has no legal effect, and they can completely say that it is copied. However, if the lawsuit is punished, Samsung's plagiarism crime will also be settled.

Of course, Samsung also wants the world to know that they did not copy the products of the Tang Dynasty Group.

One wanted Samsung to plead guilty, and the other wanted to get rid of the impact of plagiarism, that is, to start this lawsuit of the century.

However, it seems that the other emotion of wanting to get away with the crime is even more powerful. ..., after all, Tang Dynasty is the plaintiff and Samsung is the defendant. Although after Tang Dynasty sued Samsung, Samsung also filed a counterclaim. However, many people do not take him seriously. Moreover, if this lawsuit fails for Tang Dynasty Company, then it will not have much impact on Tang Dynasty Company. However, if Samsung fails, it will not only lose money, but also have to withdraw from the US market...... And that's just the U.S. market. Affected by this, the markets of other countries are equally dangerous. Moreover, once the name of plagiarism is pressed, even if Samsung develops a new product in the future, I am afraid that not many people will patronize it.

So, when the local court in California adjourned, Samsung was the first to jump out. They declared, "Praise the wonderful performance of Samsung's legal team, and at the same time, they also conveyed a good news to the media for Samsung." They believe that Judge Gao Lanhui and the jury disagreed with the multi-touch patent in the second piece of evidence claimed by Tang Dynasty, and perhaps, when the final verdict is pronounced, this piece of evidence will be invalidated. ”

Yes, when Tang Dynasty Company mentioned the multi-touch patent, Judge Gao Lanhui discussed it with the jury. However, the smart Samsung believes that this is Judge Gao Lanhui and the jury may have objections to this evidence. However, they really don't know that they don't have objections. Rather, they are figuring out what Tang Dynasty Group calls multi-touch patents.

Because, in the following explanation, Tang Dynasty Company has already explained.

The multi-touch involved in Tang Dynasty is not an ordinary multi-touch function. Instead, it is a more detailed confirmation of patents such as zooming in and out of the image, as well as double-clicking to zoom. Because, they have to figure it out. This is the same as the multi-touch concept, and as a result, obviously, they are not the same.

Of course, before the trial, what Samsung said, it seems that although Samsung is at a disadvantage in the first trial, it may not lose. But Samsung raised his IQ too highly, and when the court resumed the next day, the local court in California immediately changed from the original open court to a closed court, allowing only two local news organizations to enter.

Moreover, the first step after the trial is not to pick up on yesterday's mission. Instead, they asked Samsung's legal team to give a description and asked Samsung to explain who published the news yesterday, and which one of Samsung's legal team authorized them to do so.

Yes, the majesty of the judge cannot be denied.

Judge Gao Lanhui and the jury's decision did not allow other members to interfere.

Samsung's clever trick directly angered Judge Gao Lanhui.

Yes, there is such a scene.

If today's court session is not closed, I'm afraid. The media at the scene were about to scream.

If this kind of dramatic scene is transmitted to all friends around the world at the first time, I don't know how powerful it will be.

Fear. When all my friends saw the news. All of them were shocked.

They will think. It's over, Samsung is done.

This guy, before the judge pronounces the verdict, they have already acted as judges.

Of course. After Gao Lanhui's inquiry was fruitless, the Tang Dynasty Samsung infringement case continued.

At this time. The court session is still in the area of evidence presentation.

This is because there is a lot of infringement evidence and various explanations involved in this infringement case. Just the materials. That's a few hundred pages. This also made Judge Gao Lanhui and the jury depressed. Because, just looking at these materials has wasted a lot of their time. Therefore, they have been emphasizing that the two companies try to talk as little nonsense as possible. …,

Now, the Tang Dynasty Company continues to come up with a third piece of evidence.

This piece of evidence is about Samsung's infringement of the logo design of Tang Dynasty.

Yes. At this point, the icon is singled out. Because. Tang Dynasty Company believes that this is a more important item, and it is also a piece that represents the company's image. For this reason, Tang Dynasty Company specifically proposed that Samsung Company copied Tang Dynasty Company's icon idea.

Among the evidence given by the Tang Dynasty Company, the logo of Samsung Company is strikingly similar to the icon of the Tang Dynasty Company. In addition, experts in this field were also invited to identify the icons of the two products. This witness from an American professional icon maker said that although there are some slight differences between Samsung's logo and Tang Dynasty's icon, their similarities are an astonishing 90 percent.

This similarity, like a piece of clothing, the Tang Dynasty company shows a complete piece of clothing. This piece of clothing includes the position of the buttons, the color of the garment, the style, and other settings. The difference between Samsung is that the position of the button has been slightly changed, and the others are exactly the same.

At the same time, Tang Dynasty Group also said that they pay great attention to icons and have always believed that this kind of icon is one of the corporate cultures of Tang Dynasty Group. They hope that through these icons, users can clearly know what the application product under the icon is, or what kind of functions it will have.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty Group has long applied for a patent for such an icon.

However, Samsung ignored Tang Dynasty's patents and engaged in complete plagiarism and imitation.

In this regard, Judge Gao Lanhui subsequently handed over the right of interpretation to the Samsung legal team.

It's a relatively small thing, however, because it's too similar. Moreover, when the smartphone came out, he did not have these icons. If you still say that this is the general trend of human innovation, it seems unreasonable and there is no evidence.

As a result, Samsung's legal team said that Samsung recognized Tang Dynasty Group's icon patent. However, they don't think they have plagiarized, at most, they just borrowed some ideas to express Samsung's ideas. Just as there is a clock icon in the icon, in fact, many icons will draw the image of a clock.

However, such an answer was once again questioned by Tang Dynasty's lawyer team. They believe that even if you learn from it, you should show more differences. Not to mention, the icon of time you can draw in other ways. For example, you can draw an electronic icon, you can draw something else, there are a lot of ideas you can do. Why, the icon you drew is consistent with the icon in the Tang Dynasty mobile phone?

Could it be because Samsung's designers designed such icons based on this?

When moving on to Samsung's side, Samsung still explained it the same way.

Subsequently, the Tang Dynasty Company continued to come up with the fourth major piece of evidence.

This piece of evidence says that Samsung infringed a patent of Tang Dynasty for rebound and scaling.

These two patents of rebound and zoom belong to the subtle design of the Tang Dynasty mobile phone operating system, when we pull a page, when the end of the pull, the page will naturally bounce back a little. This detail has long been registered as a patent by Tang Dynasty Company, and the gesture of pinching and zooming has also shocked the industry on the first generation of Tang Dynasty smartphones.

But at this time, Samsung still called several witnesses.

Some of these witnesses said that they had studied such a technique several years ago, and that some hearts had been posted on the Internet. But. They were not registered as patents. It was on the basis of the technical information provided by these two witnesses that Samsung innovated such a technology. ...Looks. Samsung's legal team answered very well.

It's just that. At this time, the Tang Dynasty lawyer group gave an answer that made Samsung ashamed to death.

"I'm sorry, Samsung, maybe you have the wrong witness. Do you know what these two witnesses do? They were listening to a lecture we gave at Harvard. Then we took our idea and posted it on the internet. In the end, though, they didn't design a product either. No patents appeared. Until. When we applied this technology to mobile phones, Samsung followed suit......"

This answer almost made Judge Gao Lanhui squirt.

This is the funniest case Judge Gao Lanhui has ever seen.

Could it be that Samsung has already fainted, and without any reason, it casually found two witnesses to come out.

But just right. These two witnesses were actually students who came to listen to the lecture during the Tang Dynasty Group's speech.

But. Afterwards, Gao Lanhui also figured it out.

Probably because Samsung didn't have any reason to refute it, so it had to find a reason.

In summary, Tang Dynasty Group believes that Samsung infringes Tang Dynasty's design, multi-touch patents, icon design, and rebound and zoom...... Nearly dozens of patents. Samsung was required to compensate Tang Dynasty for $2.5 billion in damages, and to completely ban the sale of Samsung's infringing products in the United States. However, at this time, the Samsung lawyer delegation showed that they still had one piece of evidence to present. This evidence believes that the exterior design of Sony's smart phone is actually earlier than Tang smartphones. However, when it came to this certificate, one of the judges rejected the application of the Samsung legal team.

This move directly overwhelmed the Samsung legal team. For it never occurred to them that His Excellency would refuse to submit this information. Similarly, in such a situation, even the lawyer team on the side of the Tang Dynasty Company was puzzled. However, when the Tang Dynasty lawyer group saw the facial expression of His Excellency the judge.

They finally learned that it turned out that the Samsung lawyers' group had angered some of the judges by their previous self-assertions in the media...... When they knew this result, the members of the Tang Dynasty lawyers' group almost wanted to laugh three times. Nima, that's amazing...... However, since it is a courtroom, it is a serious place.

For this reason, the Tang Dynasty lawyer group is also happy to watch the jokes of the Samsung lawyer group.

Subsequently, the trial continued.

Originally, a trial like this, although the Tang Dynasty Company provided more evidence, was indeed feasible. However, there are some reasons for Samsung's answer, although some of them are rogues, but they are also reasonable. Therefore, it is impossible for the court to move such a trial forward so quickly.

It's just that in the next conversation between Judge Gao Lanhui and the Samsung lawyer team, there was a dramatic change.

In order to find a satisfactory answer to Samsung's series of products, for example, so many things similar to Tang Dynasty series products came out, and asked Samsung to give a general explanation. Unfortunately, a lawyer named John, one of Samsung's legal team, gave another proof.

To highlight Samsung's competitive nature, the lawyer brought an internal Samsung memo.

The memo reads: At that time, we were all focused on Nokia, keeping an eye on changes to "Folders", "Status Bar", "Slides" and other applications. But when we compare it with this unexpected competitor, the Tang Dynasty smart hand, we find that this is really the gap between heaven and earth.

Since then, the company has entered a period of design crisis. ..., it was this design crisis that gave Samsung a fatal blow. Subsequently, when Judge Gao Lanhui questioned the legal team and asked for documents comparing Samsung and Nokia, the Samsung legal team refused. However, at this time, Judge Gao Lanhui changed his request, they wanted to see Samsung's complete memo.

Of course, such a request was also rejected by Samsung's legal team, which said that it was a secret of Samsung. But Judge Gao Lanhui directly gave his trial, saying, "If Samsung refuses again, then the California court will consider Samsung to intentionally destroy the evidence." ”

It was only at this time that the Samsung legal team panicked.

Because, they know, there are documents in Samsung's internal memo that are unfavorable for Samsung's plagiarism. If this document is uploaded to the court, the lawsuit will not need to be fought again. Because, in this document, he can prove that Samsung intends to copy the products of the Tang Dynasty Company.

When the trial reached this point, Gao Lanhui specifically said that the court was adjourned at noon, and they hoped that Samsung would submit this memorandum at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Finally, the court trial has entered a critical moment.

After the media released such news, almost all the media, they paid attention to Samsung's internal memo. and said that perhaps, in this memorandum, there is the truth of the facts. Because, from their memo, there is already a design crisis.

How to solve the design crisis in a short period of time, I believe there will be an answer in the memorandum.

However, when such news is released, many people will say that it is possible that Samsung will use the adjournment to delete important information in the memo. Therefore, there are many people who believe that even if this memorandum is handed over, maybe, nothing will be found.

Of course, for the dramatic scene at the beginning of the court, when the judge asked Samsung to hold Samsung accountable, countless netizens couldn't help laughing. They were almost laughed at by Samsung's "self-righteousness", and at the same time, they really didn't expect it. In an international lawsuit, such a thing can happen.

Later, when the California judge was furious in court and refused to allow Samsung to present evidence, the best explanation was the explanation.

Because of this, many people declared.

It seems that this lawsuit does not need to be fought anymore, because the stupid Samsung has not only angered the judge. At the same time, he also exposed his unfavorable side. For example, the judge asked Samsung to provide such information as an internal memo, which was entirely found by Samsung itself.

If there is no information in the memo, it is fine, but if it is found to be important. I believe that this will be a fatal blow to Samsung. Even, such a lawsuit can be ended in the fastest time. Because, once the evidence has been found, it does not take any more time.