Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial

Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:27PM (#17149407)

Exactly this. I see lots of other comments bringing up "Hey, rounded corners are obvious" or "A grid of icons is obvious", and then bringing up phones like the Sony Ericsson P800 to show how grid of icons already existed.

This is what I call "losing the forest for the trees", and for some reason I think is extremely common among engineering folks. It's not just rounded corners, or a grid of icons, but rounded corners and a grid of icons that looked and felt extremely similar to the iPhone.

I think it's still a very valid debate to say whether or not these kinds of things should be patentable, but lets not pretend that Samsung just happened along to a similar design. They were clearly copying the overall gestalt of the iPhone.

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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by stickfigure on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:39PM (#17149457)

I've never heard an engineer claim that, well, anything from Samsung was novel or original. Nobody is making that argument. We're trying to have that very valid debate you're referring to right now.

This stuff should not be patentable, not even in aggregate. Full stop.

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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by bluthru on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:47AM (#17153108)

Should Hyundai be able to ship cars with the same body as a BMW?

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