Jury selection is due to begin on Monday in the United
States in a high stakes patent battle between Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics
Co Ltd, the culmination of over a year of pretrial jousting with billions of
dollars in the balance, Reuters reports.
Apple and Samsung, the world's largest consumer electronics
corporations, are waging legal war around the world, accusing each other of
patent violations as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for mobile
devices. The fight began last year when
Apple sued Samsung in a San Jose, California federal court, accusing the South
Korean company of slavishly copying the iPhone and iPad. Samsung countersued.
The stakes are high, with Samsung facing potential U.S.
sales bans of its Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers, and Apple in a
pivotal test of its worldwide patent litigation strategy. Apple will try to use Samsung documents to
show its rival knowingly violated the iPhone maker's intellectual property
rights, while Samsung argues Apple is trying to stifle competition to maintain
"exorbitant" profit, according to court filings. A 10-member jury, all of whom hail from Silicon Valley,will
hear evidence over at least four weeks, and it must reach a unanimous decision
for Apple or Samsung to prevail on any of their claims.
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