Apple v. Samsung: Jury deliberations begin

Mercury News:

Harold McElhinny, Apple’s lead attorney, urged the jury to side with Apple and order Samsung to pay as much as $2.2 billion in damages for violating the patents on five iPhone and iPad software features, such as slide-to-unlock and auto-word correct. Samsung, Apple estimates, has sold 37 million of the nine smartphone models and one tablet alleged to have copied those patents.

“Apple cannot simply walk away from its inventions,” McElhinny told the jury. “And so, here we are, 37 million acts of infringement later, and we’re counting on you for justice. The size of this illegal (conduct) is beyond comprehension.”

Samsung lawyers, however, again stressed that Apple’s allegations center on Google’s Android technology, which ran the Samsung devices, and that Apple is carrying out late CEO Steve Jobs’ 2010 internal pledge to conduct a “holy war” on the Mountain View search giant.

Hoping for justice here.