Opinion ID: 2801691
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Supporting Evidence

Text: Samsung contends that the infringement verdict was not supported by substantial evidence. Samsung’s contentions, however, are premised on the same issues— functionality, actual deception, and comparison to prior art—it raises in the context of the jury instructions. See, e.g., Appellants’ Br. 27 (“The uncontroverted evidence at trial showed the claimed features in Apple’s design patents to be overwhelmingly not ornamental, but structural or functional.”). Having rejected the jury instruction challenges, we likewise find Samsung’s parallel substantial evidence complaints unpersuasive. Apple’s witnesses provided sufficient testimonies to allow the jury to account for any functional aspects in the asserted design patents. Additionally, the witnesses testified on the similar overall visual impressions of the accused products to the asserted design patents such that an ordinary observer would likely be deceived. Apple’s experts also testified about the differences between the asserted patents and both the prior art and other competing designs. The jury could have reasonably relied on the evidence in the record to reach its infringement verdict.