Apple vs Samsung's second day of trial to go interesting to say the least. After the court denied the Samsung right to make the argument that the concept of Sony is the inspiration behind the design of the iPhone, Korea decided to take matters into their own hands and released the evidence, which had previously been dismissed by the court.
Evidence in question consists of twelve slide show that Samsung could not possibly rip Apple off because they have been working on a device like that months before the launch of the iPhone. Such devices are F700 companies, among others.
However, Judge Lucy Koh has had enough of it and got really annoyed with Samsung actions. He even asked John Quinn, a lawyer leading the Samsung, to write a declaration explaining his role in the excluded evidence to the press release.
Koh judge has rejected the evidence several times. He noted that "Samsung has filed such motion for reconsideration 10," and Quinn even threatened with personal sanctions. This happens after the report, he actually begged the court to reconsider its decision on the evidence in question.
Back to the trial at hand, it became clear that the position of Samsung in all this is that they are not copying the iPhone and that although they may have used some of the technology patented by Apple (touchscreen), it is a violation of Apple's much more important patents owned by Samsung (3G goods).
Charles Verhoeven, Samsung lawyer, claimed Apple did not create a rectangular design with rounded corners (the leakage of evidence removed): "Samsung is not copyists, some Johnny come lately to mock," he added. Verhoeven also go through the list of Apple's patents and threw them aside one by one the reasons why they quote must be issued.
Christopher Stringer, a veteran designer of Apple since 1995, first to take a firm position as a witness. As he continued with his testimony, he revealed much of the initial iPhone and iPad prototype design.
In addition, Stringer said that Apple had "cheated". "This is a huge leap in imagination to come up with something new. That's what we do," added the veteran designer Apple.
Fortunately, TheVerge.com got hold of a prototype image. Check some of them below, and we'll let you be the judge if they resemble anything familiar.
The trial continues today with the testimony of Phil Schiller, Apple Senior Vice President of Marketing Worldwide, and Scott Forstall, Senior Vice President of Apple IOS Software starting at 09:00 Pacific time.
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