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Intellectual Property

Aug. 23, 2012

Apple, Samsung attorneys clash in closing statements of major patent trial

In closing arguments Tuesday, lawyers for Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. laid out different reasons why the stakes in their closely-watched patent and trade dress infringement trial is so high.


By Hadley Robinson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN JOSE - In closing arguments Tuesday, lawyers for Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. laid out different reasons why the stakes in their closely-watched patent and trade dress infringement trial are so high.


Harold J. McElhinny, a San Francisco-based partner with Morrison & Foerster LLP who represents Apple, argued that not only has Samsung made "knockoffs" of the iPhone a...

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