The four-week jury trial in San Jose is set to test the intellectual property rights in the mobile device market, as Cupertino-based Apple seeks damages in excess of $2 billion from South Korean outfit Samsung , reports the Financial Times newspaper.
In the opening stages of the trial, Samsung – which supplies a significant amount of components for Apple – argued that it has not infringed on Apple’s patents. Charles Verhoeven of New York law firm Quinn Emanuel Urqhart & Sullivan said: ‘Samsung is not some copyist, some Johnnie-come-lately doing knock offs.’

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Meanwhile, Apple’s legal team often sounded more like their advertising department. Harold McElhinny of San-Francisco founded firm Morrison & Foerster displayed a photo of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs when he unveiled the iPhone in 2007. Mr Elhinny said: ‘It is hard to remember what ‘phones looked like before this conference.’
Mr Elhinny added: ‘Apple has a vision that technology should be about much more than simple functionality. It should be about the experience, how you react to the products.’
Mr Verhoeven responded: ‘There is nothing wrong with being inspired by someone else’s design… It’s called competition.’