Closing arguments have been delivered in the US obvious hearing between the two greatest smartphone-makers in the world, Samsung and Apple.
Apple lawyers indicted South Korea-based Samsung of duplicating Apple designs after realising it could not compete.
Samsung lawyers retorted adage a win for Apple would meant reduction selection for consumers.
The jury in the trial, that is in its fourth week, starts concern on Wednesday.
Apple is asking for more than $2.5bn (1.6bn) in indemnification from Samsung for violating its law designs and features in the iPad and iPhone. It is moreover asking for a sales ban.
In return, Samsung has opposite sued, adage Apple infringed its patents for key wireless technology.
In his shutting evidence on Tuesday Apple counsel Harold McElhinny told the jury that Samsung had in use a by-pass in its product design.
"In the vicious 3 months, Samsung was able to duplicate and soak up the outcome of Apple's four-year investment in hard work and ingenuity- without receiving any of the risks," McElhinny mentioned referring to the time outlayed working on Samsung phones by a South Korean planner who testified in the trial.
For his part, Samsung's counsel Charles Verhoeven told the jury a verdict in foster of Apple meant contest would be mutilated in the industry.
"Rather than competing in the marketplace, Apple is looking a aggressive corner in the courtroom," Verhoeven mentioned in his shutting statement.
"(Apple thinks) it's entitled to having a monopoly on a spherical rectangle with a considerable screen. It's extraordinary really."
The keenly watched hearing has drawn worldwide consideration and on Tuesday the courtroom was superfluous with observers, journalists, lawyers and analysts.
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