one thing to think of for those who say laymen can't understand the technology

Part of this case is "are the patents valid", but there is also a substantial part of this case that boils down to "did Samsung intend to infringe" and other "who knew what when and what were they thinking" types of questions. It's exactly this type of thing that a random jury should be deciding, not a panel of experts.

I raised the example of medical malpractice because I was on a Jury for such a case last year. And afterworlds I spoke with the lawyers and they mentioned that there has been talk among the medical community questioning if Jurors are able to understand enough of the medical terminology and other information to be able to make a fair ruling in such cases (among other things, just because there is a test that could have been run, and with 20-20 hindsight may have provided information that changed a diagnosis, was the Doctor negligent in not ordering the test)

This sounds eerily similar to the logic that laymen can't handle the complexities of a case like the Samsung/Apple case.