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"Samsung is requesting the billion-dollar patent case it lost against Apple in August be thrown out because the jury foreman didn't fully disclose his litigious past.\nJury foreman Velvin Hogan was sued by his former employer, Seagate, and had once filed for bankruptcy in 1993, Bloomberg reports. When asked by Judge Lucy Koh if he'd ever been involved in lawsuits, he didn't reveal the incidents.\nSamsung says it has a strategic relationship with Seagate, and the lawyer who filed the complaint against Hogan is married to another lawyer who works for the firm now representing Samsung against Apple. To Samsung, it all adds up to evidence of bias.\nHogan says that's nonsense. He tells Bloomberg the court instructed jurors to reveal any litigation from the past 10 years, and the cases Samsung is bringing up predate that. He also said he had no intention of serving on the jury or as foreman in the first place.\n\nSEE ALSO: Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5, Allowed to Sell Galaxy Tab 10.1\nThe jury elected Hogan foreman partly because of his background, which includes spending the better part of decade working with lawyers to patent his own video compression software. He was the only juror to vote against his election as foreman.\nIn a previous interview just after the trial, Hogan said he was initially leaning toward giving Samsung a favorable verdict, but that the evidence of its guilt was \"overwheming.\"\n\u201CSamsung should have known or did know they were infringing,\" he said at the time.\nWhat do you think of Samsung's complaint about Hogan? Should it be dismissed or did his nondisclosure taint the case? Share your thoughts in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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