Re:Apple's suggestions to Samsung to work-around its iPhone ...
by fpgeek on Sunday December 04, 2011 @12:05AM
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>Look at an HTC phone. There's no way one can mistakenly think that it's an iPhone.
True. If you mistook my G2 for an iPhone I'd say you need needed your eyes checked. Nevertheless, looking at the list from The Verge, I think there's an argument that it violates all but one of them:
- Rectangular with rounded corners (check)
- Centered screen with lateral borders (check)
- Horizontal speaker slot (check)
- Front surface with limited adornment. Well, beyond the elements an iPhone has (speaker slot and trackpad/home button) it has a T-Mobile logo and the 4 lite-up capacative Android buttons. IIRC, this is just like a US Galaxy S2 (the international version, which my wife has, drops the search button). Without the example of the SGS2, I'd say HTC was in the clear here, but...
The only "suggestion" HTC has clearly followed with the G2 is that between the metal bezel and the gray bumper below it, the front surface isn't entirely black.
In other words, the design rights Apple is asserting are astonishingly broad.
True. If you mistook my G2 for an iPhone I'd say you need needed your eyes checked. Nevertheless, looking at the list from The Verge, I think there's an argument that it violates all but one of them:
- Rectangular with rounded corners (check)
- Centered screen with lateral borders (check)
- Horizontal speaker slot (check)
- Front surface with limited adornment. Well, beyond the elements an iPhone has (speaker slot and trackpad/home button) it has a T-Mobile logo and the 4 lite-up capacative Android buttons. IIRC, this is just like a US Galaxy S2 (the international version, which my wife has, drops the search button). Without the example of the SGS2, I'd say HTC was in the clear here, but...
The only "suggestion" HTC has clearly followed with the G2 is that between the metal bezel and the gray bumper below it, the front surface isn't entirely black.
In other words, the design rights Apple is asserting are astonishingly broad.