“Susan Kare, the designer who created much of the look and feel of the original Macintosh, took the stand Tuesday as a paid Apple (AAPL) witness in the company’s multibillion patent infringement suit against Samsung,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“She was shown the slide [below], a comparison between a screenful of iPhone icons and a similar screen from the Samsung Galaxy S1,” P.E.D. reports. “If that slide weren’t enough to persuade the jury that Samsung was deliberately copying Apple’s ‘trade dress’ — a legal term of art for the patentable appearance of a product — Apple had plenty more where that came from. One hundred and twenty six slides in all that show Samsung doing the same thing for just about every aspect of iPhone’s user interface…”
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Link doesn’t work.
Yup, linky no worky.
Fix that link already!
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/08/how-samsung-copied-apples-iphone-in-126-detailed-steps/?iid=SF_F_River
Samsung. The Kama Sutra of copying original thought.
I sent this is in to MDN. not sure why they didn’t credit me….
anyways, http://9to5mac.com/2012/08/07/samsungs-132-page-internal-report-on-why-the-galaxy-should-be-more-like-the-iphone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29
is a link where you can read the entire document.
It’s effects online are hilarious. Everyone who is still trying to defend samsung is being called an “idiot” or a “samsung fanboy” or “apple hater” on every single tech forum.
Even normally quiet ones like The Verge… 😀 basically… Apple has just won.
“126 ways Samsung copied Apple’s iPhone”… Is this a new song by Paul Simon, you know, like “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”?
The problem is all inside your head
Samsung said to me
The answer is easy if you
copy Apple freely
I’d like to help you in your struggle
To get R&D free
There must be 126 ways
Samsung copied Apple’s iPhone.
Samsung said it’s really not our habit
To be original
Furthermore, Samsung hopes the jury
Won’t be daft or confused
But Judge Koh will rule
At the risk of being crude
There must be 126 ways
Samsung copied Apple’s iPhone.
[CHORUS:]
You Just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just listen to me
Hop on the bus, Gus
You don’t need to discuss much
Just get your R&D Free, Lee
And get someone’s brainchild for free…
Clever!
lol. very good.
If the jury does not rule in Apple’s favor, justice truly is blind.
thats what I thought with the Oracle debacle…
That was a travesty.
Samsung has been caught in flagranti – game over.
Still has to go through a jury. Anything can happen.
Exibit A: OJ Jury.
Case closed.
Exhibit B: I can’t spell “exhibit”.
I call for a mistrial, you’re honor.
Actually reading through the translation it’s not so damning. Apple’s lawyers will need to show how the recommendations at the bottom of each page were then implemented such that they copy Apple. The recommendations don’t do that.
It’s interesting to me that the green phone icon has gotten so much attention from both sides. And yet in these early research reports Samsung was using a red-orange background for the phone icon, so they clearly opted later to rework the icon to be more like Apple’s choice. Or charitably, they later reworked the icon to use the green that most phones used to highlight the button that meant “answer call”
I’m guessing these presentation was laid out in PowerPoint and not Keynote. Shouldn’t Apple have a designer helping their lawyers with these. They look nasty and are hard to follow.