lulz. is there anything sony won't copy...

lol so technically Samsung is using Sony to help them win in court

No one makes flame wars more interesting than Sony.

Samsung is citing a case that Apple already won by showing they had the iPhone design down in 2005; so they're not going to gain any ground there.

Anyway; Samsung, LG, and Sony are all legendary for being imitation brand companies. So I don't see the courts taking any of those three seriously.

Patent law really is ridiculous. I know it's a necessary evil but this really does sound childish.

Cub said: The whole thing is funneh

i concur :P

But Sony copied from the Nintendo phone first (the Nin-ring-ring) so all the money will go to them

that's why this shit should stop anytime soon. like always, everything is stolen from something before, at least in some parts. it is simply not possible to make a new phone which doesn't have patented shit. when samsung lost in germany for a tablet last year or so and i read one of the reasons was apples patent of a white packaging with the product name on it or something stupid like that i knew this whole patent war is a huge joke.

The story Samsung was trying to tell the jury was that before it unveiled the first iPhone, Apple's was pursuing a design inspired by Sony's (SE) aesthetic  -- a line of reasoning that has been transformed in hot fires of the blogosphere into proof that Apple "copied" Sony's design.

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But let's go back to the first sentence of the excerpt. The article that was circulated internally at Apple, Gruber helpfully points out, was a 2006http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2006/id20060221_140419.htm">Businessweek interview with the designers of the product shown at the top of this piece. It was not a phone at all, but a Walkman -- the NW-A1200 -- that according to Businessweek represented for Sony a new, cleaner, less cluttered design aesthetic.

And what inspired that new aesthetic? Of all things, according to the Sony designers, an Apple iPod.

Apple wasn't copying Sony, dear bloggers. Sony was copying Apple.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/01/the-sony-device-samsung-claims-inspired-apples-iphone/

It would be sad if apple would win the case... patent law have more flaws than a mutilated genitalia