"Mizzou J-School Leader's Testimony Could Hurt Apple in Huge Lawsuit Against Samsung," Daily River Front Times, August 17, 2012.
In what Wired magazine is calling "the patent case of the century," Apple is suing Samsung for "slavishly" copying Apple's tech and design as seen in -- among other things -- the iPad. Apple believes Samsung is trampling on its patent rights. The local-ish connection is this:
Earlier this week, Samsung produced testimony from a Missouri School of Journalism faculty member that calls into question the validity of Apple's iPad patent.
Roger Fidler is now Program Director for Digital Publishing at the Reynolds Journalism Institute (which is part of the J-School). But many years ago, according to his written declaration submitted to the court, he worked as a media developer at Knight-Ridder starting in 1979.
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