Apple’s Jobs Confronted Samsung Over Galaxy, Witness Says
By Joel Rosenblatt - Aug 11, 2012 12:01 AM ET
Bloomberg.com
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Boris Teksler, director of patent licensing and strategy, was called as a witness yesterday in Apple’s multibillion-dollar intellectual property trial against Samsung in federal court in San Jose, California. He said Apple made a presentation to Samsung executives in August 2010 intended to warn the company against copying the iPhone.
“We were quite shocked,” he said. “They were a trusted partner of ours and we didn’t know how a trusted partner would build a product like that.”
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Earlier yesterday, a witness for Apple testified that 21 Samsung smartphones copy patented technology for “rubberbanding,” the way an iPad or iPhone screen seems to bounce when a user scrolls to the end of a file.
Ravin Balakrishnan, a University of Toronto professor hired as an expert witness, told the jury yesterday at the companies’ intellectual property trial that Apple’s innovation was designed to tell users “you’ve reached the edge, the system is still alive, and it’s not frozen.”
Other Apple patents covering technology that let users pinch and expand images on a screen and allow for “repositioning and rightsizing” are infringed by more than 20 Samsung products, Karan Singh, Balakrishnan’s colleague at the university, testified.
More: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-11/apple-executives-were-shocked-by-samsung-galaxy-witness-says.html
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