Apple's Opening Court Statement Focuses on Samsung's Radical Shift in Phone Design

[DeathChill]

An actual human being has to authenticate it. Both sides bring engineers and executives to testify in court and provide context to the drawings/prototypes. Otherwise the document has no validity. You don't just drop it on the other side's lap and say "case closed."

Ah, makes sense. I was just curious how they verified it all!

 

[larrybeo]

I'm curious to see what Samsung's reason is behind this. Apple's stance is that they took the risks with the radical new design, and Samsung didn't take risks by following afterwards. This is very short case in my opinion.

 

[LisaMaree]

"As we all know it is easier to copy than to innovate," he told the court. "Apple had already taken the risks."

How well is that argument going to hold up when it's easy to show how Apple copied and stood on the backs of several companies to produce the iPhone and other devices.

p.s. you can copy AND innovate at the same time. Because unless Samsung actually produced an iPhone - it's not a 1:1 copy

It doesn't need to be a 1:1 copy, it's enough as it is.

"Pfft! I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one! And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny!"

What they have still takes away from trade dress and the consumer experience. Not only do you make a statement like that without any supporting evidence but you fail to realize this is about the totality of the claims made, not just individually, and it's about the overall trade dress and branding - in this way, where it counts, there has not been a device like the iPhone before the iPhone. You wouldn't mistake or even think it's remotely similar to a Blackberry or WinMobile device before 2007 in terms of device experience.

 

[lazard]

In the words of Steve Jobs, "Good artists copy, great artists steal...We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas".

http://youtu.be/CW0DUg63lqU

 

[rjohnstone]

It doesn't need to be a 1:1 copy, it's enough as it is.

"Pfft! I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one! And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny!"

What they have still takes away from trade dress and the consumer experience. Not only do you make a statement like that without any supporting evidence but you fail to realize this is about the totality of the claims made, not just individually, and it's about the overall trade dress and branding - in this way, where it counts, there has not been a device like the iPhone before the iPhone. You wouldn't mistake or even think it's remotely similar to a Blackberry or WinMobile device before 2007 in terms of device experience.

Patents are about specifics, not some overall generalization.
You pick each component apart one-by-one.
Does the screen layout infringe, do the icons infringe, etc.
Those are design patents and they are very specific.

similar =/= same

Branding is a trademark issue, not a patent issue. Trademarks are not involved in this particular case, only patents.

 

[ablashek]

The world also had indeed changed after the introduction of the Apple Macintosh... Or was it the Xerox Star, which Apple copied with the Mac, that changed the industry?

Anyway. After those machines were sold, all computers had graphical user interfaces and mice -- and Microsoft Windows became the standard for that. Apple sued Microsoft like crazy and almost killed their own company over it.

I also wonder if Apple actually believe that they invented that user interface design that they used in iOS. EVERY Point-of-sale touch screen computer looks like that since the 1980s, it's just the form factor that is different. And talking about the form factor, LG is the company that introduced the first smart phone with a capacitive touch screen. And the IBM Simon was the first real smartphone - and it also had a touch screen. And Simon was introduced in 1993.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon

Apple is a crybaby standing on the shoulders of giants.

Haha, good point. Every single point of sale does have that UI, but nobody has ever thought of putting it on a phone. And regarding the Xerox...Upper management didn´t have the vision to see this as an amazing product. Apple did. If Apple hadn´t brought it to the mainstream, it could have delayed the GUI another 5 years.

Image being in a World (2012) where we would still be using Windows XP because Vista just came out and its unstable!! Or using Tiger´s new amazing feature...spotlight hahahaha

 

[kdarling]

Image being in a World (2012) where we would still be using Windows XP because Vista just came out and its unstable!! Or using Tiger´s new amazing feature...spotlight hahahaha

Or imagine a world where Apple and Microsoft failed in the 1980s, and we would have all been using advanced multitasking computers all that time, instead of slogging through 20 years of crippled mass consumer operating systems like MacOS and Windows.