Original title: witness list of Apple Samsung patent dispute case
In the morning of April 24, Beijing time, apple and Samsung will face off again in the retrial of compensation in May, but Tim & middot; cook and Johnny & middot; Eve will not appear.
The two companies filed witness lists with the U.S. District Court in Northern California on Monday for the May trial. The list includes industry experts and executives from the two companies, but does not include the name of Apple's chief executive or design director.
Eve, Apple's chief design officer and a big contributor behind the company's most popular products, is only on the witness list of written testimony.
Apple and Samsung plan to hold a court on May 14 to determine how much compensation Samsung will need for infringing Apple's three design patents. The trial is the latest contest between the two companies. Apple and Samsung have been fighting over the patent dispute for five years. This latest trial is the third in five years. The first one was in August 2012, and the second one was also a compensation trial in November 2013.
This special case was sued all the way to the Supreme Court at the end of 2016. The Supreme Court agreed that the way of compensation could be different from in the past. The ruling redefines the value of design and the price that companies may have to pay for plagiarizing the appearance of competitors' products. Before that, the infringed 'manufactured goods' often referred to the whole equipment. But now, the manufactured goods can be a small part of the equipment, which limits the amount of compensation.
However, the Supreme Court did not specify how the manufactured goods would be determined, which led to the rejection of Apple v. Samsung and the retrial of the compensation amount by the Northern California district court.
During its testimony, Samsung will try to prove that the products that infringe Apple's patents are only a small part of the device. Samsung's witnesses will explain the various components that make up Samsung's device, as well as consumers' ability to split the phone, buy individual components and repair the device. Apple, on the other hand, will prove that it still has to pay for the value of the whole phone if it infringes on part of its design.
Apple's Witness
Apple plans to subpoena Richard Howard, senior director of the company's design team, as one of the co inventors of the patents involved in the case. Haworth will testify about Apple's design process, infringement of design patents, and other designs considered by apple.
Greg joswiak, Apple's vice president of product marketing, will also testify. Joswiak played an important role in Apple's iPad launch in March. He will testify about Apple's marketing strategy, the competitive market of smart phones and the importance of Apple's design patents to its devices.
Another notable witness is Susan Kare, Apple's early designer. Carl is a recent winner of the prestigious American Graphic Design Association medal. She designed many of the early icons on Apple's Macintosh, including the 'happy Mac' icon and the trash can icon. Apple said she might testify about the graphic design of icons and user interaction, as well as one of the patents involved in the case.
Apple's expert witnesses include Ravin Balakrishnan, a computer science professor at the University of Toronto; Alan Ball, an industrial design expert; Julie Davis, a consultant with expertise in accounting and compensation analysis; and Karan Singh, another computer science professor at the University of Toronto.
Apple may also subpoena Tony Blevins, the company's vice president of procurement, to testify about the company's history, products, components, supply chain and procurement, supplier relations and other issues.
Samsung
At the same time, Samsung will summon Justin Denison, senior vice president of mobile product strategy and marketing of Samsung Electronics USA, to testify about the company's collection recoverability and the company's' overall design 'strategy. Dennison may talk about his trip to the repair center near Samsung's North America Headquarters, describe the scenes he saw there, such as the disassembly and reassembly of mobile phones, and may also describe the smartphone market and the reasons why people buy Samsung devices.
Drew Blackard, senior director of product marketing at Samsung Electronics USA, will testify about which parts of Samsung devices infringe Apple's design patents. He also talked about the fact that some consumers like to dismantle mobile phones and that devices are easy to repair. He will also describe the smartphone market and explain the factors that encourage people to buy mobile phones.
Samsung will also subpoena jinsoo Kim, vice president of the group's design center. Jin Jinsong was involved in the design of Samsung's infringing mobile phone. He will describe Samsung's design process and explain how the company 'pursues user-friendly design' on the point of dismantling products. Another designer involved in Samsung's user interaction design, Jee Yeun Wang, will also testify in court about Samsung's software and its process of developing new devices.
Other executives Samsung plans to subpoena to testify are kyuhun Han, an executive of the company's business operations group; dongwook Kim; and Tim Sheppard, current Vice President of supply chain logistics and former vice president of Finance and operations at Samsung Electronics USA.
Samsung's expert witness is Sam Lucente, who will testify on the definition of manufactured goods; and Michael Wagner will elaborate on Samsung's reasonable amount of profit and compensation.
Other witnesses in court included Tim Benner, Samsung's senior director of marketing science and strategic analysis; Peter bressler, a design expert summoned by apple in the first trial; Steven Sinclair, a former iPhone product marketing manager; and three other Apple executives.