Apple says a request by Samsung to halt a damages retrial, in which the jury is currently deliberating, "crossed the bounds of reason."Lawyers for Samsung Wednesday filed an emergency motion asking U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh to halt the retrial in anticipation that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would nullify one of the patents at the center of the case.The patent, U.S. Patent 7,844,915, covers a single and multitouch zooming method for smartphones and is being reexamined by the patent office to determine if it should have been issued in the first place.Samsung said the USPTO advised it on Wednesday that it intends to find all claims of the patent are invalid."The Advisory Action is the Examiner's final word on the invalidity of the '915 patent. This decision by the PTO jeopardizes the jury's findings in the dam
