“Apple’s expert witness on damages, a certified public accountant from Chicago, was the person who sealed the iPhone maker’s victory in its patent infringement retrial against rival Samsung, according to members of the eight-person jury,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Jury forewoman Colleen Allen spoke with Bloomberg after the trial concluded on Thursday, and revealed that it was CPA Julie L. Davis who provided the strongest evidence to justify a $290 million payout to Apple from Samsung,” Hughes reports. “Allen called Davis a ‘superstar witness,’ saying she was ‘on it’ and steady when cross examined.”
Hughes reports, “Allen’s thoughts were echoed by fellow juror Barry Goldman-Hall, who said that it was Davis who helped determine exactly how much money Apple should be awarded.”
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“Allen, the forewoman, said jurors ‘butted heads’ on $178 million that Samsung argued should be subtracted from profits of more than $230 million that the companies agreed was attributable to the infringing products,” Joel Rosenblatt reports for Bloomberg. “Davis argued ‘absolutely none of it should come out,’ Allen said, referring to the $178 million, and Samsung didn’t provide sufficient evidence to rebut Apple’s expert, to make its case that the entire amount should be deducted for its operating costs. Jurors agreed to take the ‘middle of the road’ and cut half of that amount, Allen said.”
“Barry Goldman-Hall concurred that Davis’s testimony was key when asked about decisive evidence presented at trial,” Rosenblatt reports. “‘For most of us it was Julie Davis,’ he said in an interview. ‘She offered us a lot of information’ to determine how much of the $178 million and what royalties should be awarded to Apple, he said. Samsung attempted, and failed, to block Goldman-Hall from being seated on the panel after he disclosed during jury selection that his cousin’s employment with Samsung ended ‘under bad circumstances.'”
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