Intellectual Property,
Civil Litigation
Aug. 12, 2022
Mistrial over jury misconduct in AirPods infringement case
According to the jury notes, one juror conducted internet research to learn the requirements for a patent. A second juror brought a pair of wired earbuds and Styrofoam into the chambers, “to show the jury how obvious this was to do.”
Jury misconduct during deliberations led to a mistrial in a $42 million patent infringement trial against Apple Inc. over its AirPods.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter in Santa Ana declared the mistrial shortly after the jury retired to decide whether the AirPods infringed two patents held by Pinn Inc.
According to court documents, two jurors violated the court’s bar against accessing outside information to r...
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