Does the judge in this case have a certain amount of time to decide whether or not to overturn the juries decision? If so, when can such a decision be expected?

Understand prior art? The jury never even took it into consideration.
This is an east TX type of decision.

Why do they need ignorant people aka juries? Because without them Apple would not win the case.

Expecting people to *listen to the instructions as they were read to them* was just too much to ask. God forbid the jurors have to read or take things seriously and act like adults when they are chosen to decide a legal case. It’s more instantly gratifying to tune the judge out and then make stupid quick decisions: instead of debate, they tabled the controversy to revisit the vote when everyone is tired and not wanting to start over again. Source- the jury foreman in this articles video. All just to go home for the weekend, because why the fuck should jurors care about the greater good when ITS THE WEEKEND.

Yes that is right.

not allowed due to the prior art of “Twelve Angry Men”

What a joke of a system and process, how can things like this happen, when I read some of the case notes and details I can’t understand how some decisions are made… also it’s a rather highly important legal issues is it not… by the sounds of things the Jury has no legal idea on any thing, they could not even follow there own instructions on what to do yet alone try and understand law which is at best of times complicated and hard to follow…

How is it that these ‘every day people’ are able to decide the fate and come up with a dollar value they think is fair when they clearly have no idea on the basics of what THEY are suppose to do and what there responsibilities and function is yet along making decisions for multi billion dollar company’s… What a crazy system and process… Sorry no respect and I really feel sorry for Samsung as they are clearly not the only phone company and Apple on the other hand is by no means a company that invented or came up with the idea’s… yet some how they manage to patent idea’s that they did not even come up with… CRAZY TIMES!

The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) does not need juries, because it is an administrative court, not a civil court. The patent applicant or patent holder is complaining against the Patent Office for not granting him a patent, or for canceling his patent. At this level, someone who merely supplied information in a Request for Reexamination is no longer a party to the case. A court for examining claims of infringement is, however, a civil court, and it does have to have a jury.

However, nothing in the constitution says that a civil jury has to be in one place. Suppose that there is a Patent Infringement Court, attached to the Patent Office, and probably borrowing judges from the BPAI. It assembles a national jury. Prospective jurors report to the U.S. Courthouses of the districts in which they reside, where they are examined by teleconferencing, to reduce the jury pool to a reasonable number. Depending on circumstances, they may hear the case and deliberate via teleconferencing, or at some point in the proceedings, they may be flown to Washington.

Now, as to the issue of jury qualifications, I would suggest that the jury pool for patent cases be drawn from Licensed Professional Engineers. Licensed Professional Engineers are preponderantly civil engineers. Many electrical and mechanical engineers do not regard it as worth the trouble to become licensed, because their work does not ordinarily involve working directly with the public. At the same time civil engineers have comparatively little engagement with the patent system. The kinds of things civil engineers do are locally particularistic, eg. examining the soil under a particular structural foundation. The technology of civil engineering is comparatively stable, in the sense that new products are not so much better as to justify wholesale replacement. There is no “Reardon Metal.” Building a better road, or a better railroad track is mostly a matter of building better foundations. Large sections of the physical plant on which civil engineers work are a hundred years old, and the civil engineer frequently has cause to admire the Roman engineers who built thing like the Pont Du Gard in France, or the Via Appia. The most difficult civil engineering jobs tend to involve working for the government. It is virtually impossible to be an uber-capitalist in civil engineering, given that so much of the critical raw material belongs to the public. The most powerful men, such as Robert Moses of New York, have been civil servants. While civil engineers do not ordinarily know very much about computers or electronics or molecular biology, they do have a considerable capacity to learn such subjects.

[Runs to patent office right on your heels to get patent on “mobile hardware that runs software to run a web-controlled laser to tease a cat for you”.]

[Also runs to the patent office to get a patent on “bouncing around a mobile device with an active screen on the end of a line attached to a fishing rod with the intended outcome of teasing a cat”].

[Also wants to register “fishing with mobile phones” as a trademarked sport.]

Just like Apple ripped of Gene Roddenberry and the Star Trek franchise.

Bought!!!