<story><title>Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court</title><url>http://ibnlive.in.com/news/apple-loses-to-samsung-in-japan-patent-case/287057-11.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>veidr</author><text>It should be noted that in Japan, such cases aren&apos;t tried by lay juries. (Actually even for criminal cases, they are only just starting citizen jury trials.)&lt;p&gt;A judge, or panel of judges, decides such cases, and I believe that the ones who try patent cases are, generally speaking, reasonably competent (and thus much less likely to make the incontrovertible errors seen in the recent US Apple-Samsung case).</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court</title><url>http://ibnlive.in.com/news/apple-loses-to-samsung-in-japan-patent-case/287057-11.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oemera</author><text>It&apos;s a shame that a &apos;article&apos; with so little information makes on the frontpage of HN. These days the headline needs just to name Apple and it is guaranteed to show up on the frontpage.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if someone could write a plugin to just ban all Apple news from HN.&lt;p&gt;Edit: typo.</text></comment>