Late Monday afternoon, Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued her first rulings after the December 6 post-trial hearing between Apple and Samsung regarding matters raised by the verdict of the first smartphone patent trial. The judge has refused product sales embargoes on the infringing devices, citing only a small amount of the product infringing fails to merit a ban. Additionally, the judge rejected Samsung's motion for a mistrial based on juror misconduct, saying that inadmissible statements after the trial didn't count as "evidence
