“Apple Inc., barred at a trial from calling its opponent a ‘patent troll,’ did exactly that less than an hour after jurors found in favor of the iPhone-maker and rejected claims for $93.7 million in damages,” Joel Rosenblatt reports for Bloomberg.
“The federal jury in San Jose, California, arrived at its decision in its second day of deliberations. GPNE Corp. claimed as many as nine Apple products, including the iPhone 5, the iPad 3 and iPad Mini, infringe its patents covering wireless data communication in pagers,” Rosenblatt reports. “GPNE, based in Honolulu, calls itself a telecommunication research and licensing company with more than 30 patents covering wireless and wired data communications.”
“Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, California-based Apple, said in an e-mail after the verdict that GPNE is nothing more than a ‘patent troll’ attempting to ‘extort money from Apple for 20-year-old pager patents that have expired, wasting time for everyone involved,'” Rosenblatt reports. “At trial, U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh prohibited Apple from referring to GPNE as a patent troll. She also forbade Apple from calling its adversary a pirate or bounty hunter or bandit, or likening GPNE’s lawsuit to ‘playing the lawsuit lottery,’ according to a court filing.”
Read more in the full article here.
Great outcome. And appropriate response from Apple. Now, why can’t Koh’s authority have also expired some 20 years ago…
Her honesty and integrity sure can’t expire, since they have never existed.
Is someone ever actually going to notice what a two timing waste of hot air this judge is. I thought we were supposed to be outing trolls not defending them luv.
Can we send Koh back to Korea? She (it) is not welcome here any longer. Our cats and dogs will not be safe until they are gone.
You don’t like your own country’s law, but you blame the judge. Go figure.
Or get educated. (Now THERE’s a concept.)
I don’t care for her either… but she was Born in DC and raised in Oklahoma.
If you do any research on her.. her parents both immigrated to the US at early ages (mother at 10..) and they met here in the US…
loyalty of ones roots, goes deeper than the country you are born in
Generalize much?
So where is yours?
And if that were true, how come there is so much drum-beating, bible-thumping, love it or leave it?
Stupid runs deep in Reagan worshipers.
Who cares where she (it) was born. She acts like a native Korean. They are despicably corrupt people.
How quickly you forgot how much you loved “Gangnam Style”!
FOAD racist troll!
And you know what native Koreans act like?
She’s a federal judge who has to give both sides opportunities to fairly present their cases. Just because you favor one party (Apple) and hate anyone against Apple doesn’t mean Judge Koh is wrong in some of her rulings.
Of course, then there are the other rulings . . . .
You are a bigoted moron! i wasn’t happy with some of her decisions but to blame her ethnicity is unpatriotic and idiotic in the land of immigrants!
What, unpatriotic if you’re a Korean dog eater?
FOAD racist troll.
Hope Apple countersues the heck out of them and hangs them in public for display!
At least get back their court costs yeah. Which some charge at $1,000 an hour.
Speaking of which whatever happened to that Bromwich asswipe that Judge (I use the honorific lightly) Cote ridiculously appointed as an anti-trust monitor at Apple?
After Cote said ““If anything, Apple’s reaction to the existence of a monitorship underscores the wisdom of its imposition” I loved what one guy on Mac Observer said :
“Yes…the very act of noticing that the court-appointed personal friend of the judge is demanding to investigate Apple’s business practices that are beyond the scope of the antitrust case is proof that he should be given unfettered access. What’s next, weighing Tim Cook’s stool to make sure they aren’t committing any environmental offenses?”
That case is pending appeal.
Apple would have had to file their counterclaims in the lawsuit. I’m sure they are pursuing their attorneys’ fees and costs.
Don’t use the term “patent troll”, call them “non-practicing entity”
How about “shameless leeches”?
Technology Assassins?
Patent Terrorists?
Old Lucy is a real piece of work. Can we revoke her Green Card?
No you racist idiot, she was born her, she is an American citizen.
“She was born her” is a wonderfully profound typo.
Were the patent trolls white? Did this prevent Judge Lucy Koh from slapping Apple down on her perception of an appeal to xenophobic bias in American courts” ?
In this regard I still like the British system: you sue, you lose, you pay. There’s a bit of disincentive to play games with the courts and waste a lot of defendants’ money. But the U.S. lawyers won’t have anything to do with this bit of logic.
Are you saying the Troll had no expense suing Apple? That’s laughable. I will guarantee Apple made them pay dearly for their exercise. Maybe not in penalties, but in legal fees.
For example, Apple would have demanded tons of documentation and dispositions, with which they would have to comply. Some of that would have to have been “on the record” before a legal entity. All that costs money.
They paid a pretty penny in losing. Should have been more pennies, but it wasn’t free.
Lawyer’s work for free when they can have a lottery win in the end. No win, no fee.
Sometimes. But do you know for sure what arrangement GPNE had with it’s attorneys in this case?
What it means is not that they don’t have expenses in suing; it means that if the system were fair, the losing side in a case like this would pay the winner’s costs. Apple spent a bundle fighting this frivolous suit.
Bravo Britain! Why the loser doesn’t pay in the USA is inconceivable. Pay for the judge’s time as well. Yes, even Sea Hag’s time.
…20-year-old pager patents that have expired, wasting time for everyone involved
Exactly. So thanks sea hag for not messing this one up (mostly), for a change.
Well, Judge Lucy tried. Does she still get paid?
U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh obviously missed her calling in life.
I’m not a lawyer, I don’t even play one on TV, but I think the point of her ruling is that name calling like that interferes with the fact-finding the jury is tasked with accomplishing.
Apple called GPNE Corp a “patent troll” *after* the jury found in favor of Apple. How could that influence the jury?
John was referring to the judge’s rulings that barred Apple from calling GPNE a patent troll DURING the trial. After the trial, Apple was obviously free to do so.
The ruling barring Apple from using the “patent troll” label during the trial is what has stirred up much of the anti-Koh sentiment and racist insults from some of the more partisan and less educated posters on this board.
It doesn’t. Which is why Apple could say it. They just couldn’t say it in court in front of the jury. A reasonable call, by the way, that all judges would make.
If someone is on trial for robbery, the prosecution can’t call the defendant a “criminal”, a “thug” or a “menace to society” during the trial. Afterwards, they can call him whatever they want (up to the point of slander).
So I guess when Koh says a duck is not a duck, we have to believe it’s a Tweety Bird, until after the trial. I bet she’s pissed. now.
Jerrycan — it’s racist to generalize about an entire country of people. It would be like calling all Americans fat, stupid and lazy.
And why did someone claim the judge should have her green card revoked, as if she wasn’t a U.S. citizen? It’s like the redneck “birthers” who imply President Obama is in this country illegally, even though he was obviously born in Hawaii.
For as much as I dislike the attitude of this judge towards Apple (and this is based uniquely on what I read on the web as I’m not American nor follow the news on US channels nor I get any of these news on TV or newspapers where I live in Europe) I do not really understand the comments of the so many people here calling her Korean.
She’s not Korean as much as you are not Italian or Irish or British or Dutch or whichever other place your ancestrals came from 100s years ago. Your Country has been pulled together from people and cultures from many different places around the world but that doesn’t make you more Irish than a Dubliner person or Dutch than a native in Amsterdam. You are citizens of a nation called USA, you call yourself “American” in a continent which is America which btw is far bigger than your custom boundaries, so be it! everyone of you!
Apologies if I hurt someone saying this but I truly do not understand it and forgive me for any grammar mistake, I’m not english mother tongue.
Welcome to the hubris of the neo-conservatives that MDN attracts these days. They are a classless bunch of money worshiping, corporate boot-heel licking, war mongering, racists. Trying to understand them is like trying to reason with insanity, best to ignore them or just troll them back.
They will never be moderate or temperate with their ideas, middle ground isn’t their strong suite, they prefer decisive rhetoric and defiance in the face of reason and science. They are a selfish, self-absorbed bunch and generally make the world a worse place. They would be happy if we returned to the ideals of the gilded age and embrace outdated, offensive, social norms.
There does seem to be a trend towards personal attacks on posters who espouse a viewpoint not shared by MDN’s more conservative readers. If you don’t have the reasoning ability to argue with an idea, then you can always resort to name calling.
@Truth – I think I speak for mostly everybody here when I (with all due respect) say to you – just shut the h*ll up and sit down…
You are a brain dead lib drone – we get it. Now move on and go pollute another board…
@ILUVConstitution
Thank you for providing an example.
LOL, Predictable, tired, parrot-like response. (and I’m the drone?!) I wouldn’t expect anything else from a conservatard.
Don’t you have some racist ebola fears to stoke? Perhaps you could light another candle on your Rush altar or go work on disenfranchising voters somewhere?
At the very least go back to the drawing board and look for some new material, gat creative, at least make it interesting..