> If a jury was full of experts it would completely miss the point.

The "lay jury" in the USA Apple vs Samsung case where obviously a bunch of idiots, so if the "jury was full of experts" I suspect then may well have done a better job.

How can any competent jury in a patent law suit some how decide to ignore "prior art"!

Read for yourself: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57500358-37/exclusive-appl...

Edit: From the link:

> After we debated that first patent -- what was prior art --because we had a hard time believing there was no prior art." "In fact we skipped that one," Ilagan continued, "so we could go on faster. It was bogging us down."