Jurors in Apple-Samsung case delved into e-mails, other evidence

Jurors who awarded Apple more than $1 billion in its intellectual-property battle with Samsung pressed through deliberations without any formal coffee breaks, worked through lunches, and continued their discussions for an hour longer than scheduled on two of the three days, jury foreman Velvin Hogan said.

The panel of seven men and two women went through a "meticulous" process in determining that Samsung infringed Apple's products, said Hogan, 67. When it came time to consider whether a violation was "willful," or intentional, "we knew where we had to go in the evidence," he said, referring to e-mails introduced at the trial. One pivotal document was an internal 2010 Samsung e-mail describing how Google asked the South Korean manufacturer to change the design of its products to look less like Apple's. "Certain actors at the highest level at Samsung Electronics Co. gave orders to the sub-entities to actually copy," Hogan said. "So the whole thing hinges on whether you think Samsung was actually copying. The thing that did it for us was when we saw the memo from Google telling Samsung to back away from the Apple design."