If you didn't think that copying Apple products is ridiculous enough, well, Samsung lawyers can cross the limits of the normal without any problems. The legal representatives of the Asian company they're arguing with Apple's lawyers even for the places they will occupy in court, but also for the procedural quality they will have. Samsung's lawyers say that both parties should be called petitioners and not plaintiff/defendant, arguing that the court must treat both parties equally and since both raise claims, both must have the same procedural quality.
Both parties will at times be acting as plaintiffs and both as defendants, and it is therefore important that both parties are treated the same. Samsung asks the court to rule that both companies be referred to during the trial as "claimants." It even asks that its lawyers be allowed to sit at the plaintiff's table while it is arguing in favor of its claims against Apple.
"Equal treatment of the parties with respect to where they sit while presenting their affirmative case will mitigate any prejudice to Samsung that may result from Apple being in closer proximity to the jury throughout the trial," Samsung said. "It will also ensure that the jury does not draw any improper inference based on disparate treatment of the parties with respect to their positions in the courtroom."
Those from Samsung do not like to be called defendants and say that when they present their case, they should sit in the place where the plaintiffs are normally located, embarrassing being a non-existent word in the vocabulary of the Asian company's lawyers. To be honest, it seems to me that the lawyers are trying to use laughable methods to unnecessarily prolong the trial with Apple, and here we have a good proof of the way some understand how to do business and solve their legal problems.
