Apple said it will show that Samsung's handling of some of its mobile patents violated the rules of the standards body ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute), which should have been informed of the patents. Samsung said those rules didn't apply because its patent applications were confidential information.

One of the ten jurors was dismissed on Tuesday morning before the opening statements began. She had requested to be let go because her employer would not pay her during the long trial.

The rest of the jury is likely to be in for a long and contentious series of arguments from both sides.

"Samsung hasn't done anything wrong," Verhoeven said at the conclusion of his opening statement. "If anything, what we have here is infringement by Apple."

The IDG News Service