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by hahainternet 4701 days ago
With respect, accusations of copying were levelled at Apple's competition over having rounded corners on their devices, and rounded corners on their icons.

Practically a carbon copy of one of Google's most advanced features is worthy of note I think.
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voodoo123 4701 days ago
If you are repeating that false 'rounded corners' meme then you are either paid by Samsung (who started that), or beyond reason.
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hahainternet 4701 days ago
That's a rather offensive false dichotomy. Please don't accuse me of being paid off or mentally incapable.
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voodoo123 4701 days ago
I apologize if you really didn't know that Apple didn't make that accusation.
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hahainternet 4701 days ago
On August 24, 2012 the jury returned a verdict largely favorable to Apple. It found that Samsung had willfully infringed on Apple's design and utility patents and had also diluted Apple's trade dresses related to the iPhone ... The jury found Samsung infringed ... design patents that covers iPhone's features such as the "home button, rounded corners and tapered edges" (US D593087) and "On-Screen Icons" (US D604305).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electroni....

This seems to indicate that Apple did indeed assert what I claimed. Can you show me how this is false?

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Steko 4701 days ago
Pretty sure Google's own lawyers told Samsung the design was too close before it was even released.
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voodoo123 4701 days ago
This document proves that the meme is false and that Apple did not attempt to protect 'rounded corners'.

Apple asserted a design patent that protects the overall appearance of the iPhone - the 'trade dress'. Rounded corners are one of many attributes that describe the appearance of the iPhone. If you copy enough attributes - as the court ruled that Samsung did, you have copied the appearance.

Taking a single element out of context is a lie that Samsung originated, designed to give the appearance that Apple attempted to protect a ridiculously broad concept which the documents show that they did not do.

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hahainternet 4701 days ago
> This document proves that the meme is false and that Apple did not attempt to protect 'rounded corners'.

You are straight up lying here. Observe the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/USD593087

'many attributes' in this case meaning 'two attributes'.

Reading your post history you have a short history of only posting pro Apple and repeating many similar assertions. Yet you have the gall to accuse me of being a paid shill. Hilarious.

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