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UK Judge Who Chastised Apple Over Samsung 'Apology' Now Consulting as Patent Expert for Samsung
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Why stop there?
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He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin!
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken;
To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away;
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!
His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen--
I would not put buying people past Samsung.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/business/worldbusiness/06cnd-samsung.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/business/worldbusiness/06cnd-samsung.html?_r=0
Coming so soon after his rulings in the Apple case this does sound fishy. Even if he didn't get paid off, it makes you wonder how impartial he was during the case. Especially since the punishment given out was equivalent to spanking Apple publicly to shame them.
He was not the judge ruling the publicity punishment
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Are you accusing judge Jacob of corruption?
again:
This judge was NOT the judge that issued the verdict.
This judge was part of a tribunal which ruled unanimously against Apple's appeal of the original verdict.
he was also part of the tribunal that reduced the requirements of the initial judges decision.
Hmm, companies seem to do these things all the time, my question is, I wonder what Apple has done?
This makes it sound like Samsung have hired the judge when it is not actually the case.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21613152
Ethical?
This is ethical for a British judge to serve a consultant to a company for whom she ruled in favor? Smacks of "We'll give you some work if you make things go our way.. (wink, wink)." Or even for a judge to give opinions in a court when they are not the judge? I wouldn't think the acting judge would be too pleased with that!
I could be wrong, but I've never heard of an ACTIVE judge doing that in the United States. Retired ones, I think so.
This is ethical for a British judge to serve a consultant to a company for whom she ruled in favor? Smacks of "We'll give you some work if you make things go our way.. (wink, wink)." Or even for a judge to give opinions in a court when they are not the judge? I wouldn't think the acting judge would be too pleased with that!
I could be wrong, but I've never heard of an ACTIVE judge doing that in the United States. Retired ones, I think so.
By leaving out key information, Florian Mueller succeeded in his goal of attracting more clicks for his little blog.
Well the good news is that at the next trial, apple has a case for that judge to be nowhere near the case.
He has said that Oracle and Microsoft pay him
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So, the judge that made the original ruling and the two other judges at the appeal didn't did anything?
Excuse me, but _if_ there was some wrongdoing, then that's exactly what you would expect: Judge is promised a well-paying job, decides a court case in favour of his future employer, and _after_ the ruling he is hired. Quite obviously if the judge was hired _before_ the ruling, he wouldn't be allowed to make any ruling.
Being offered a well paying job is about the same as being given money. Ignoring the fact that we don't know if there was any wrongdoing, paying money _at that time_ would be such an idiotic thing to do, I couldn't imagine Samsung being so stupid.
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Yep. He is a paid consultant for those companies.You don't see a weeeee little bit of hypocrisy in your two statements that I quoted?
The question now is - why are people still going on about this after you posted the factual information.
Funny.
Just shows
that judges in the UK are just as corrupt as they are in the U.S., nothing more. It's good in a way to see that UK judges are corrupt too.
Judges including SCOTUS, congressmen, heads of government agencies, and more all trade votes and influence for money and future "jobs".
that judges in the UK are just as corrupt as they are in the U.S., nothing more. It's good in a way to see that UK judges are corrupt too.
Judges including SCOTUS, congressmen, heads of government agencies, and more all trade votes and influence for money and future "jobs".
Sure. He is paid to do that, and that's what he does. A judge, on the over hand, is supposed to be impartial. So you can't compare them. Anyway, FUD is the wrong term. No F involved here.
Are you implying the FORMER judge needs to be impartial?
p.s. "A highly reputed intellectual property expert and academic, Sir Robin has been contracted as an expert by a law firm that represents Samsung Electronics in its case against Ericsson," it said.