Apple Inc. may have collected $548 million from Samsung Electronics Co. last month from its first smartphone “trial of the century.” But the $119 million it recovered in a second trial appeared in serious jeopardy Tuesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Judges Timothy Dyk and Jimmie Reyna pushed, pulled and prodded Apple attorney William Lee for the better part of an hour about an Apple patent on “Quick Links” that flag phone numbers. The congenial Lee of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, grew sufficiently exasperated to tell Dyk at one point that the judge’s characterization of the evidence was “absolutely not” correct. “You’ve just articulated what Samsung’s expert said, a theory that was rejected by the jury,” said Lee, who faced off against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner Kathleen Sullivan for Samsung.
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