Apple-Samsung $2 Billion Patent Case Over Google Near End
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Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. head toward the conclusion of their second U.S. patent trial with one last chance to make a case to jurors on whether the $2 billion case is actually a proxy war over Google Inc.’s Android operating system.
Each side will get two hours tomorrow to sum up its case in the same San Jose, California, courtroom where Apple was awarded $930 million in the first trial two years ago. This time, with most of Apple’s patent-infringement claims relating to Android functions, Samsung has cast the iPhone maker’s case as a bid to displace Google as the leading supplier of smartphone systems and limit consumer choice.