“When Apple’s patent battle with Samsung heads to trial next week, the iPhone maker plans to build its case using its Korean rival’s own words against it,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD.
“An unredacted version of Apple’s trial brief bluntly states that Samsung was well aware that its smartphones and tablets bore a striking resemblance to Apple’s iPhone and iPad and that the issue was one the company discussed internally,” Paczkowski reports. “Among those documents are a few purported to show that Samsung not only deliberately copied certain characteristics of the iPhone and iPad, but was also explicitily warned away from doing so by various third parties, including Google.”
Paczkowski reports, “In February 2010, Google told Samsung that Samsung’s ‘P1’ and ‘P3’ tablets (Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1) were ‘too similar’ to the iPad and demanded ‘distinguishable design vis-à-vis the iPad for the P3.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Again, Samsung’s lack of business ethics is appalling. Hopefully the jury will see the blatantly obvious, too.
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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