> Don't blame the jurors. They're just regular folks who are earnestly trying do their best as though they're performing a civic duty. In reality, they're being played like a fiddle.
I blame them a fair amount. They had hundreds of questions to answer and were asked to take as much time as they needed. Instead, they cranked them out in a couple days.
The pay is shit, the tasks are boring and inscrutable, and people have lives to get back to. But I don't think that's a full excuse for phoning it in like this jury did.
The logic of your comment depends on there existing a value of "as much time as they needed" which is significantly longer than the time they took and significantly shorter than, say, their lifespans. The point of earlier comments is to say that one does not exist. If you wish to rebut those comments persuasively, you might consider directly addressing that point: how much more time should they have taken, and what difference would it have made?
> how much more time should they have taken, and what difference would it have made?
Enough time to read the fucking jury instruction about prior art, challenge the foreman's assertions about it, and ask for instruction or clarification as needed.
You seem to think this is too much to ask of laypeople with a billion dollars on the line. I think people are capable of much better.
Edit: Consider that the foreman himself said that things were looking in Samsung's favor before his "aha" moment.
I blame them a fair amount. They had hundreds of questions to answer and were asked to take as much time as they needed. Instead, they cranked them out in a couple days.
The pay is shit, the tasks are boring and inscrutable, and people have lives to get back to. But I don't think that's a full excuse for phoning it in like this jury did.