How Facebook tricked the jury

OPINION: One blogger's perspective

Facebook doctored evidence as the basis for their only "win" in the patent infringement case Leader v. Facebook which is now on appeal at the Federal Circuit

January 26, 2012—The 3 min. 22 sec.YouTube video below summarizes how Facebook experimented with a 70-person Delaware focus group to confuse the jury with innuendo dressed up to look like evidence of "on sale bar." As a matter of law, Facebook's "victory" cannot stand since it is founded on doctored evidence—a 60%-altered Interrogatory No. 9. (See mock trial Comments in "Facebook's 'clear and convincing' burden of proof in Leader v. Facebook".) Here are links to the two trial documents that comprise Interrogatory No. 9: (1) Doc. No. 627-23 and (2) Doc. No. 627-24.

Lessons in fooling a mostly blue collar jury

Do you find it hard to believe that Facebook's Cooley Godward attorneys would doctor evidence, much less make it the centerpiece of their on sale bar attack? See for yourself at these blog entries:

Facebook's prized "evidence" was a trick. See also No evidence? No problem. Fabricate it.; Missing Facebook Documents; Facebook's jury binder innuendo. Follow other related link in this blog's Table of Posts (on right).

The revelation that Facebook paid 70 people almost $500 each to test how best to fool the jury with pseudo-evidence is further proof that Facebook had no evidence, and instead, resorted to attorney games—"dark arts" that are so destructive to the public's confidence in our legal system.

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