The Samsung jury decision was hasty and ill-done. The jury doesn’t even seem to have read the jury instructions the judge prepared. When they found that dealing with something as important as ‘prior art’ was a bother, they simply dropped it. And they were dominated by a foreman who, from his remarks since the trial, seems to combine great ignorance and arrogance. Much of the jury’s decision simply doesn’t make sense as anything other than a haste to be done and go home.

The real problem is that, like the OJ Simpson trial, there’s remarkably little the legal system can do to ‘fix’ the results of a lazy, clueless jury, although thus far Judge Koh seems to be trying to minimize the damage it’s likely to do.

Kevin, if you intend to write on high tech and the law, you need to do the work required to know something about the topic. You should follow websites such Groklaw.net. If you don’t, then you’d be better advised to simply confine yourself to gushing about your feeling on some new gadget.

Like a lot of others, I have no interest in hearing what some clueless IT reporter feels about a topic about which he knows nothing.