Apple’s Patent War Seen Leading to Retaliatory Strikes

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In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge. The Harvard-educated former federal prosecutor has served on the California state bench and as a partner in a Silicon Valley law firm, where she litigated technology patent lawsuits.

For all her earnestness, Koh, 43, couldn’t resist needling the lawyers skirmishing before her at a hearing last June in San Jose, California.