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Apple claims reversal of $120M jury verdict in Samsung patent case violated the U.S. Constitution

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<p>The endless <a href="http://9to5mac.com/tag/patent-trial/" target="_blank">patent battles[/url] between Apple and Samsung took an interesting turn this week when Apple claimed that the most recent court ruling violated the Seventh Amendment of the U.S. Constitution: the right to trial by jury.</p>
<p>Back in 2014, Apple was <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2014/05/02/verdict-reached-in-apple-v-samsung-patent-trial/" target="_blank">awarded $119.6M[/url] when Samsung was found to have violated three of <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/01/what-are-the-five-ios-features-apple-is-claiming-that-samsung-or-google-stole/" target="_blank">the five patents[/url] in dispute. That award was <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/27/samsung-patent-quick-links-apple/" target="_blank">overturned last month[/url] when an appeals court ruled that Samsung didn’t infringe one of the three patents, and declared the other two invalid.</p>
<p>The problem, explains <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/ip-apple-samsung-idUSL2N1720DC" target="_blank">Reuters[/url], is that the appellate court didn’t just refer to the trial court record in reaching its conclusions, it also considered new evidence …</p>
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