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Samsung: Apple Stole the iPad's Design From Univ of Missouri Professor
TheBoat writes with a bit from BGR on the Apple vs Samsung case: "We're starting to see a theme develop here. Now that it's Samsung's turn to present its case in the San Jose, California patent trial that regularly has the tech media abuzz, the company is taking an interesting approach. Rather than start out by arguing that its various Android smartphones and tablets do not copy Apple's designs or infringe on its patents, Samsung is arguing that Apple's IP is invalid to begin with. On Monday, Samsung argued that Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent was stolen from Mitsubishi's old Diamond Touch and on Tuesday evening, Samsung made a similar argument regarding the design of Apple's iPad. Samsung on Tuesday presented the jury with videotaped testimony from Roger Fidler, head of the digital publishing program at the University of Missouri. In his testimony, Fidler stated that he began work on a tablet design in 1981. 'Apple personnel were exposed to my tablet ideas and prototypes,' he testified, adding that Apple staff saw his designs in the mid-1990s."
somehow he didn't sell several billion dollars worth of his tablets...
Next thing you know Star Trek episodes will be prior art.
First Sony and now this guy. The over all theme is still the same that Sumsung is copying the ipad but in their mind it's ok. I suggest they stick to trying to innovate rather than live off someone else's work.
This is likely going to be so easy that I, a non-lawyer, could competently handle this part of the case for Apple.
1) Did you sue anyone in the past for "stealing" your tablet work? No? Thought not.
2) Do you know that other companies, including Microsoft, pushed tablet technology years before the iPad came out?
3) Since you have not in the past pursued claims against others for supposedly "stealing" your work, how can we take your charges seriously now? Again, keep in mind that other companies have produced tablets prior to Apple and you had no objections to that.
4) Are you being compensated for your appearance in court today? If so, how much are you getting and who is paying it?
The only thing Apple is "guilty" of is being the first company to make tablets that did not suck big green ones and that people actually wanted to buy and use. Nobody was able to make the technology popular before them.
I think itâ(TM)s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.
Apple had permission from Xerox to use the ideas they had as a base.
Microsoft just took the TV without asking.
Just like Samsung...
Microsoft did have to settle on this, just as Samsung will.
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