Apple, Samsung spar over money, as iCourt resumes
While the impact of Apple’s iPhone is obvious to anyone who follows the tech industry, attorneys Wednesday took a California jury back to the phone’s 2007 unveiling to remind them just how important the device was, as Apple and Samsung began arguing over patent infringement damages that could run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
“Where were you on Jan. 9, 2007?” asked Harold McElhinny, a lawyer at Morrison & Foerster representing Apple, before cueing a video of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs introducing the phone at the Macworld Expo.
“An iPod, a phone and an Internet communicator,” Jobs said that day as the crowd cheered in response.
For Apple, it’s important to remind the eight-member jury and assert just how influential the iPhone was to the industry, because Apple is seeking redress for Samsung’s infringement of five of its patents on 13 different Samsung smartphones.
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