Apple Wins $539M from Samsung in Damages Retrial
From OP:<p>&gt; Apple said in a statement that the case “has always been about more than money.”<p>&gt; “We believe deeply in the value of design, and our teams work tirelessly to create innovative products that delight our customers,” the company said.<p>&gt; After the 2012 jury sided with Apple, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the lawsuit was about values, and that the company “chose legal action very reluctantly and only after repeatedly asking Samsung to stop copying” its work.<p>From an old Samsung filing on Groklaw:[1] (seen via 	
kregasaurusrex&#x27;s comment)<p>&gt; For its part, Apple‘s &quot;revolutionary&quot; iPhone design was derived from the designs of a competitor—Sony. In February 2006, before the claimed iPhone design was conceived of, Apple executive Tony Fadell circulated a news article to Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive and others. In the article, a Sony designer discussed Sony designs for portable electronic devices that lacked buttons and other &quot;excessive ornamentation,&quot; fit in the hand, were &quot;square with a screen&quot; and had &quot;corners [which] have been rounded out.&quot; Ex. 18 (DX 649). Right after this article was circulated internally, Apple industrial designer Shin Nishibori was directed to prepare a [redacted] design for an Apple phone and then had CAD drawings and a three-dimensional model prepared. See Exs. 1-3 (DX 623; DX 690; DX 562). Confirming the origin of the design, these internal Apple CAD drawings prepared at Mr. Nishibori‘s direction even had [redacted] on the phone design, as the below images from Apple‘s internal documents show: [redacted image] Soon afterward, on March 8, 2006, Apple designer Richard Howarth reported that, in contrast to another internal design that was then under consideration, Mr. Nishibori‘s [redacted] design enabled [redacted] As Mr. Nishibori has confirmed in deposition testimony, this [redacted] design he prepared changed the course of the project that yielded the final iPhone design.<p>&gt; Design was not the only thing Apple took from other companies in developing the iPhone. While Apple touts itself in the popular press as a company of &quot;firsts,&quot; it recognizes the opposite internally. As Apple admitted in internal emails, Apple was not the first [redacted]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groklaw.net&#x2F;articlebasic.php?story=20120726121512518" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groklaw.net&#x2F;articlebasic.php?story=20120726121512...</a>