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Corrections thread
Authored by: nsomos on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 01:07 PM EDT
If there appears a need for any corrections,
please post them in this thread.
A summary in the title can be nice.

s/Thnx/Thanks/

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Someone ought to make a twitter list of these.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT
PJ or someone else ought to make up a "legal reporters" list that only
has the specific people who are reporting on the trial.

Those were great from oragoogle.

P.S. by "list" I mean a twitter group or whatever it is called. Not
someone retweeting. That was nice, but the twitter lists were always ahead of
the retweeters :).

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OT here
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 02:38 PM EDT
Please make any links clickable.

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News Picks commentary here
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 02:41 PM EDT
Please include a link to the referenced article.

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Comes docs here
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 02:43 PM EDT


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Apple v Samsung Opening Salvos
Authored by: betajet on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 04:08 PM EDT
From Geek Times:
Apple v. Samsung kicks off innovation debates

Samsung showed examples of handsets and tablets released before the first iPhones and iPads but having a roughly similar look and feel.

“If you make something popular it doesn’t mean you can exclude other people from doing it,” the Samsung attorney said. “Apple didn’t invent the rectangular form factor you see, it didn’t invent the large touch screen,” he added.

He claimed as much as 26 percent of some iPad and iPhone bill of materials are for Samsung components. That includes the Retina display Apple heavily markets and is made exclusively by Samsung. “Who’s the innovator?” he asked.

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"There's more to the story than you just heard."
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 05:04 PM EDT
Comment when Samsung started their arguments. The implication being that the jury just heard a whole lot of stuff fabricated from whole cloth, and now the jury will hear 'the other side of the story'.

Samsung attorneys doing a fine job.

Following Howard Mintz live blog

A comment that should resonate with the jury:

"Samsung isn't in the habit of suing its business partners."

At this point, it reminds me of the Oracle-Google trial, when IMO, Google won over the jury the first day.

I.E., the jury knows who is twisting and attacking over common sense stuff.

But this is classic:

#Apple didn't use Steve Jobs video but Samsung is...to show what Samsung says is Jobs showing how iPhone can email photo with its patents.."That is cool technology, I admit it," Charles V. tells jury..."The issue is, Samsung invented it."

Game over.

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Who's live blogging/tweeting the Apple v Samsung Trial? - Almost Everybody ~pj Updated with Documents
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 05:13 PM EDT
Samsung invented sending email??? Wow, that's a hell of an invention! :D

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“Artists don’t laugh that often when people steal their designs.”
Authored by: kawabago on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 06:47 PM EDT
I beg to differ but I am an artist and I am more than happy
when people steal my ideas. Why? Because art is
communication and the more people who get my message, the
better my art is doing at conveying it. The more people who
see my work or derivations of it the better off I'm going to
be. If you're terrible, no one copies you. So copy me all you
want, it's a measure of how well I'm doing.

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Is PJ back?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 07:22 PM EDT
I've seen a lot of "~pj" articles since the Oracle/Google trial
started. Is PJ back? Is that other guy (Sorry, I can't recall his name.) gone?

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Samsung Goes Public With Excluded Evidence to Undercut Apple’s Design Claims
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 08:28 PM EDT
Link

The Judge’s exclusion of evidence on independent creation meant that even though Apple was allowed to inaccurately argue to the jury that the F700 was an iPhone copy, Samsung was not allowed to tell the jury the full story and show the pre-iPhone design for that and other phones that were in development at Samsung in 2006, before the iPhone. The excluded evidence would have established beyond doubt that Samsung did not copy the iPhone design. Fundamental fairness requires that the jury decide the case based on all the evidence.

...

Apple’s legal team was quick to take issue with Samsung’s release of evidence excluded from the trial, saying the action was contemptible. Judge Koh was none to pleased with the move herself, calling for an immediate meeting with Quinn.

"Tell Mr. Quinn I’d like to see him today," Koh said. "I want to know who drafted the press release, who authorized it from the legal team."

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The Problem
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 11:10 PM EDT

After a very clear explanation of the trade dress issue, PJ wrote "If folks are buying Samsung phones or tablets thinking they are Apple iPhones or iPads, then Samsung has a problem."

I think if the jury is shown an iPhone and a Samsung phone and the jury thinks they look the same and the jury finds that the iPhone was first and had design elements that were distinctive and not dictated by the function, then Samsung has a problem. While confusion is the rationale for trade dress protection, the liability occurs when a same-looking product is released.

Thing is, most competitors want their products to look different. None of Gibson's guitars look like Fender's. The mid-60s Camaro was Chevrolet's quite distinguishable response to the market changing Ford Mustang.

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  • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 11:29 PM EDT
    • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 01:39 AM EDT
    • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 02:09 AM EDT
      • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 03:59 AM EDT
        • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 03:26 PM EDT
          • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 02:54 AM EDT
          • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 02:56 AM EDT
      • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 06:31 AM EDT
        • Literacy Problem? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 11:36 AM EDT
  • The Problem - Authored by: Glenn on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 11:33 PM EDT
  • The Solution - Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 04:21 AM EDT
  • A glass with black edges - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 11:54 AM EDT
  • The Real Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 12:33 PM EDT
  • Not a good example - Authored by: albert on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 04:17 PM EDT
  • The Problem - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 08:52 PM EDT
Exparte?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 01:59 AM EDT
In court when Judge Koh demand to see Mr. Quin ( due to the
press release ), wouldn't the meeting be exparte? Isn't that
frowned on?

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DOing the correction for Microsoft...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 03:04 AM EDT
It does not want the public to know the terms of its patent cross license with Samsung, which it stated included coverage for Android, which it calls "highly sensitive confidential information of Microsoft that, if revealed to the public... would substantially harm Microsoft."
Let me fix Microsoft's statement for them...

"highly sensitive confidential information of Microsoft that, if revealed to the public... would substantially harm Microsoft through the destruction of its FUD campaign."

There, that wasn't too hard.

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Borrow / Steal
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 03:23 AM EDT
You have to know where Picasso "stole" this from to grok what "stealing" means (at least in this context - Good Poets Borrow, Great Poets Steal…)
One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
T. S. Eliot

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  • Borrow / Steal - Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 01:57 PM EDT
    • Borrow / Steal - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 06:57 PM EDT
Who's live blogging/tweeting the Apple v Samsung Trial? - Almost Everybody ~pj Updated with Documents
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 01:24 PM EDT
http://www.decryptedtech.com/editorials/judge-lucy-koh-is-working-hard-to-deny-a
-fair-trial-to-samsung

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Rectangles with Round Corners
Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 01:28 PM EDT
If Apple can have exclusive rights to rectangles with round corners, it seems this could create a monopoly on such rectangles, and potentially open the door to abuse -- not that Apple would ever do anything abusive.

A solution, it seems to me, would be for Microsoft to secure rights to rectangles with non-round corners for their tablets.

There, problem solved. No monopoly exists because both Apple and Microsoft can sell tablets. Everyone happy.

(hides under desk now)

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Who's live blogging/tweeting the Apple v Samsung Trial? - Almost Everybody ~pj Updated with Documents
Authored by: miltonw on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT
I think they should show the jury the full packaging of the two phones.

Is there ANYONE who, buying the phone in its package, could possibly think a
Samsung phone was an Apple phone???? Is Apple accusing Samsung of selling their
phones without packaging?

Where is there any possibility of confusion?

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"if any of them ever heard of Open Source software"?!?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 10:03 PM EDT
Help me understand the purpose of a question like that.

Is it like if someone's suing because they claim intellectual property rights on
a hamburger, and asking "have any of you heard of McDonalds" to weed
out clueless people?

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