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Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by mortehu on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:58PM (#17149825)
Now compare the those grid and device designs to those of iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S:

https://imgur.com/a/mett6HD

And remember that these are design patents. Here are the relevant ones:

https://patents.google.com/patent/USD593087S1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/USD604305S1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/USD618677S1/en

Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by JustSomeNobody on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:12PM (#17149872)
Both, to me, appear to be an evolution of this:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&ua...

Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by threeseed on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:41PM (#17149999)
This is a design patent.

Does that look like an iPhone home screen ?

Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by JustSomeNobody on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:06PM (#17150095)
I wrote they both appear to be an evolution of the visor's design. Which makes me wonder why something like the iPhone's home screen could be patented in the first place. Where's the novelty?
Re:Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial by rayiner on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:24PM (#17150177)
Design patents don’t protect novel technology (and in fact, if there is a functional benefit to the design you can’t get a design patent). Design patents protect arbitrary design elements to keep people from copying the non-functional look of someone else’s product.