Ondrej Holzman The legal saga of Apple vs. Samsung is slowly coming to its end. Both sides have already presented their closing arguments, so now it will be up to the jury to decide in whose favor. In conclusion, Apple told the Korean competitor to make its own phones; Samsung, in turn, warned the jury that Apple was trying to deceive it.
The jury begins deliberating on the verdict on Wednesday, so let's see what the two roosters came up with.
Apple's argument
First, the attorney representing Cupertino, Harold McElhinny, took the floor and started with the chronology. "If you want to know what really happened, if you want to know the truth, you have to look at the timeline," McElhinny stated, noting that significant differences are seen in Samsung's designs since the arrival of the iPhone in 2007.
"They copied the world's most successful product," an Apple representative claimed. “How do we know? We know this from Samsung's own documents. In them we see how they did it.' Just posted dokumenty, in which Samsung dissects the competing iPhone in detail, Apple is betting big in court.
“Witnesses can be wrong, they can be wrong, even if they have good intentions. Documents that are presented to the jury are always created with a certain intention. They can confuse or deceive. But you can almost always find the truth in historical documents." McElhinny explained why the aforementioned Samsung document comparing the iPhone to the Galaxy S is so important.
"They took the iPhone, went feature by feature and copied it down to the smallest detail," carried on. "Within three months, Samsung was able to copy a core part of Apple's four years of development and investment without taking any risks because they were copying the world's most successful product."
McElhinny also justified the $2,75 billion Apple is seeking from Samsung in damages. The Koreans sold more than 20 million incriminating devices in America, which earned him over 8 billion dollars. "The damages should be huge in this case because the infringement was massive," added McElhinny.
Samsung's argument
Samsung lawyer Charles Verhoeven warned that if the jury sided with Apple, then it could change the way competition works overseas. "Rather than fighting in the market, Apple fights in the courtroom," opines Verhoeven, again stating that he believes the Californian company didn't invent the rectangular shape with rounded corners like the iPhone.
"Each smartphone has a rectangular shape with rounded corners and a large display," said a representative of the Korean giant in his closing speech. "Just walk around Best Buy (consumer electronics retailer - editor's note)... So Apple wants to get $2 billion here for what? It's unbelievable that Apple thinks it has a monopoly on making a rounded rectangle with a touch screen.”
Verhoeven also raised the question of whether anyone bought a Samsung device thinking they were buying an Apple device. “There is no deception or fraud involved and Apple has no evidence of it. That's what customers choose. These are expensive products and customers do thorough research before buying them.”
At the same time, Samsung questions the credibility of some of Apple's witnesses. Verhoeven pointed to the fact that one of the experts hired by Apple ended up helping Samsung. A representative of the Korean company then went on to accuse Apple of deliberately leaving out some Samsung phones and pretending they never existed.
"Apple advocates are trying to confuse you," Verhoeven told the jury. “There are no bad intentions, no copying. Samsung is a decent company. All he wants to do is create products that customers want. Apple does wave this copy data, but it doesn't have anything else.”
Closing remarks
At the end, the representative of Apple, Bill Lee, spoke and said that the Californian company did not mind competition from Samsung as long as it came up with its own innovations. "No one is trying to ban them from selling smartphones," stated "We're just saying let them create their own. Create your own designs, build your own phones and compete with your own innovations.”
Lee also stated that the patents that Samsung used in its products and thus infringed were not copied by anyone else. According to McElhinny, the verdict of the jury in favor of Apple would confirm the functionality of the US patent system. "People would continue to invest because they would know they would be protected," he said, reminding the jury that the whole world was watching her now.
Verhoeven concluded by telling the jury: “Let the innovators compete. Allow Samsung to compete in the market without Apple trying to stop it in court.”
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Samsung's defender makes me gag with his defense built on a rectangle with rounded corners...
Samsung argues like a small child... You can see it a lot in a car, for example. Everyone looks different and if someone looks too much like another, it will change in the next generation... If the councilors hired some real designers for the money they give for lawyers...
Yeah, that's exactly how we handled it with a friend who has an HTC with Android. Compared to the iPhone and iOS, it's just a completely different phone. The graphics, the layout of the icons, simply the whole environment is original and not just a copied iPhone. Finally, the design of the phone is different and not bad at all. So don't let anyone tell me that this from Samsung is simply not just copying...
I didn't see any intentional copying of rounded corners and rectangles in the document that Apple used as evidence. That's their only argument. The point is that Samsung went feature after feature and deliberately tried to make the user experience exactly the same as the iPhone. That's what copying it is all about, no stupid rectangles.
I hope they pay like tabby.
There is no need for any document Samsung developers did for this…. when the iPhone 3G, 3GS came out... then Samsung introduced the Galaxy S. You only had to look at it and everyone must have seen a copy of the iPhone in it (the layout of the icons and the appearance of the icons, the design...) and then the same procedure. Apple introduced the iPhone 4, and Samsung could only answer it with the Galaxy S2, which coincidentally resembles the iPhone 4.
And someone still supports those slant-eyed Koreans without imagination and ideas... it's laughable.. then someone is surprised that Apple causes patent wars. Nokia, Sony, HTC….. all phones are completely different from Apple, they all have their own design, only Samsung will do the same and write its logo on it so that it is not accidentally said….
Their amazing Galaxy S3 does not resemble any iPhone this time, but just look at the Nokia C7 and you immediately know where the wind is blowing from.
Just let the Koreans pay handsomely
May I ask when the "D" day..when will the jury decide everything? Thanks
The best announcement is right at the beginning. Let Samsung make their own phones :D
Whip him for that stupid teenage "rectangle and round corners" bullshit. He does it for money, of course. Disgusting !!!!!!!!