13. The Judge

U.S. District Court Judge Lucy H. Koh is heading over the trial, being heard in the U.S. District Court in the Robert Peckham Federal Building and Courthouse in downtown San Jose, California. Koh was born in 1968 in Washington, D.C. and got her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard. She is very particular on time, keeping careful track of how each side used 25 hours of trial time they were each allotted after spending 90-minutes on opening remarks. Previously he was appointed by President Barack Obama as an IP attorney in 2010.

Koh has been urging the companies to settle, saying that both sides were “at risk” after hearing more than two weeks of arguments.

12. The lawyers

Apple’s lead counsel is Harold McElhinny from Morrison Foerster, who has gone up against Samsung before and won $59 million damages for Pioneer in a patent dispute over plasma TV displays. From WilmerHale, William Lee is there for Apple who has led a lot of the questioning over patents. For Samsung, John Quinn and Quinn Emananuel partner Charles Verhoeven are handling the trial.