“Apple is facing a huge challenge in dealing with truckloads of Korean-language documents produced by Samsung in two federal lawsuits in California and two ITC investigations,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.
“There’s a substantial risk for Apple that it may miss out on important and potentially incriminating evidence comparable to the “Lindholm email” only because the fewest of its lawyers can read and search Korean documents,” Mueller reports. “A patent case should mostly depend on technical facts, but the reality is that those technical facts are put before layperson juries, whose assessment of technical issues can be indirectly influenced by documents and testimony. And many of Samsung’s patent assertions against Apple relate to standard-essential patents, a field in which documents and testimony can be particularly relevant.”
Mueller reports, “Yesterday, two things happened that increase Apple’s chances of dealing with the language barrier. Through two of the law firms it’s already working with, Apple now has access to 73 additional, apparently Korean-American, lawyers as well as 20 document reviewers of the same ethnicity. And in one of the federal lawsuits, Apple was given a chance to take second depositions of up to ten Samsung witnesses since it previously didn’t have a fair chance to sift through late-produced documents in time for the original depositions.”
Read much more in the full article – recommended – here.
Damn that Tower of Babel anyway!
See, Apple’s creating more American jobs 🙂
Archer: Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the hogs of war.
Lana: Dogs of wars.
Archer: Whatever farm animal of war, Lana. Shut up.
South Korea run on bribes and under the table payoffs. Cheating is a national passtime. Americans are at a disadvantage because they think such practices are unethical. Not in ROK.
gee, sounds like Washington DC.
Apple can afford to lose South Korea as a market a lot more than Samsung can afford to lose the USA as a market.
What they really need are Archie Bunkers lawyers. The “Three Savage Jews” Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz &Rabinowitz!
nah, they need The Three Stooges’ legal team: Dewey, Cheatham & Howe.
Apple has contracted the firms of Morrison & Foerster and Wilmer Hale. Gotta love that.
MoFo and WiHa.
Conflict of interest much? Underestimate Korean Nationalism at your peril.
Your claiming that these lawyers and document searching Koreans purposely won’t “find” anything in the docents due to national pride?
Your Honor:
Most of these documents aren’t even remotely relevant and are deliberate distractions…but what we have found is some pretty damning and self incriminating proof of…
Did you miss the bit that said Korean-American?
I am surprised. Not a single lawyer joke? How many Korean American lawyers does it take to screw Samsung? Apparently it takes 73 lawyers and 20 helpers to interpret their moans.
What do you call 73 Korean-American lawyers in a sinking water taxi?
A start.
Lawyer jokes are one thing but Korean-American Lawyer jokes sound racist.
Are they kind of lawyers that give the other 95% a bad name?
Korean yawyers.
i would have thought that in any case filed in the US the proceedings would be in English, and the burden of producing “translated” documents would fall on Samdung. Not sure why the court would allow them to flood the court with documents in Korean language…