UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by... Samsung!

[onehandle]

Samsung is run by neo-gangsters. They have been caught paying people off all over the world and have had to pay 'corruption fees,' even in their home country of South Korea. And SK is extremely friendly to them for obvious reasons.

They make Google look positively angelic.
____________________________

By far and away the weirdest ruling in the worldwide smartphone and tablet wars came down last year in the UK, where a publicity order forcing Apple to promote Samsung's products and to make itself ridiculous in public was upheld by an appeals court, and where Apple's efforts to comply with the order were deemed "false and misleading". I thought Apple was being treated way too harshly because in the end it was just trying to defend its intellectual property rights in court and merely had refused to withdraw a German lawsuit after a UK ruling by a lower court.

The judge who gave the first opinion for the appeals court (as you can see at the start of the published decision) was The Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob. As Wikipedia explains, he "retired from the Court of Appeal in March 2011" to become a professor, but under Section 9 of the Senior Courts Act 1981, ex-judges can still be invited to sit on the bench. On that basis, Sir Robin Jacob handled the Samsung v. Apple case that made headline news around the world because it appeared that Apple filed frivolous lawsuits (which is not true). In a ruling on Apple's first attempt to comply with the publicity order, Sir Robin Jacob even noted a "lack of integrity".

For someone so concerned with "integrity" it is utterly unusual to issue a high-profile and extreme ruling in favor of a particular party (Samsung in this case) only to be hired as an expert by that same party in another dispute. But that's what has happened here, and I wonder how certain people in Cupertino feel about it. Yesterday Samsung's counsel in the ITC investigation of Ericsson's complaint submitted the protective order subscriptions (covenants to comply with the ITC's strict confidentiality rules) of nine "experts [...] working on behalf of Respondents Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics America, Inc., and Samsung Telecommunications America LLC". Lo and behold, Sir Robin Jacob is one of them.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/02/uk-judge-who-issued-extreme-ruling-for.html

[jollyreaper2112]

1. typical

"We'll get right into looking into this ethics violation!" said no government ever.

[indepat]

2. Let's move on: no quid pro quo here

[sir pball]

3. So why do you slavishly support them so?

Sure, Apple is TRYING to diversify their suppliers, but as of late last year it looked like LG was falling on their face with rMBP display panels - the official Apple forums have plenty of people wanting replacements with Samsung panels. Ditto the iPhones; TSMC has a trial oder for the A6X but not only do they have to meet quality targets they have to meet quantity as well and a fab change is no small order.

Bottom line - Apple is Samsung's single biggest customer, not critically large mind you but something like 9% of their business - every dollar you give to Apple is probably a quarter you give to Samsung. A REAL Apple aficionado wouldn't be buying any new products until they were 100% Samsung-free (if my early-2011 MPB lasts as long as my MDD G4 I won't be buying again till ~2020).

yes OP has me on ignore but it's a point worth raising, if you think Apple is angelic and Sammy is the devil.