However, you seem to be forgetting that these articles that don't standalone and are the culmination of a lot of information and evidence that clearly points to Apple having taken things that others have done and re-badged them to say that they were "Made by Apple". Slide-to-unlock? Double tap-to-zoom? Pinch-to-zoom? 4 icon/buttons at the bottom? A grid of icons? Rounded icons? Similar looking icons? Rounded rectangles? Flat glass? Black? Bezels? Single button on the front? I forget what else was brought up, but c'mon... really? Bitten apple logo on the back... oh, no. The word "iPhone" on the back... oh, no. Samsung on the front... oh, no. Buttons in the same place... oh, no. Holes for connections in the same place... oh, no. Same size holes for connectors... oh, no. Removable backpanel... oh, no. Camera placement in the same place... oh, no. Slide out keyboard... oh, no.

PJ started the articles based on this trial stating that she didn't know which way things would go because she hadn't been following the trial... Did you read that article? Was it biased toward Apple? Was it biased toward Samsung? I don't think so. I thought it showed a more rounded view of the suit at that time. Then more and more evidence was shown... Apple says this... done before. Apple shows that... done before.

PJ, in this instance, is against Apple... but for good reason. I've been reading and I can't see or remember anything that I've disagreed with after reading or seeing the evidence. I think there was something but it was trivial.

You may be right with saying that PJ has moved on from saying what you think the other poster said, "here's evidence, here's law, this is what I expect" to "they are bad" but do you expect PJ to keep rehashing what has been said in prior articles just because you want her to? I didn't realise that PJ had to pander to your whims. Thankfully PJ panders to her own whims.

If someone presents a dimwitted argument then, if you've been paying attention, you'll see that PJ and others will call them on it. Apple did, so what did you expect?

And I do believe that Prof Risch did an article about design patents and trade dress. Are you expecting more articles on that?

Either you are being disingenuous or you have not been paying attention.

Perhaps you could explain how all of Apple's arguments are valid and all of Samsung's arguments are invalid. Look and feel died a long time ago, so that's not good. Similarity of shape... well, that's largely subjective but compare a Jaguar XK with an Aston Martin DB9 from a distance and I bet you'd struggle to say which one was which... Mercedes did manage to have a replica that someone who created destroyed but then that was a replica... Samsung did not replicate the body of an iPhone or iPad... then there's TV shapes and their similarity. Would you be confused, unsure of which was which, if there was a phone from each company in front of you? Can you honestly say that the prior art for the patents isn't persuasive? And the icons are in no way comparable to clip art that PJ referenced? And functionailty... icon spacings or the number of icons? The Prada? The Samsung photo frame? The PADD, Knight-Ridder, the 2001 tablet? The speed of answering hundreds of questions where comparisons between multiple objects should have been made? The inconsistencies in the damages? Punative damages? The comments by the jury? The clear bias by a judge to sanction Samsung when Apple behaved worse? Apple can reference a Samsung F700 but Samsung can't?

And then there's the carping to put up with. If it was my blog there would be a stream of invectives and then a ban for those that were coming out with some of the comments that I've seen. If you want to argue, point out the inconsistences with PJ's points. Attacking her personality or how she coes across doesn't advance the conversation in any meaningful way. Bias with your eyes wide open to the evidence available is fine. Blind bias when you don't have any evidence or when you willfully ignore the available evidence is not.

What a rant...

I've not said it before... thanks PJ for all the hard work and keeping me interested. If you were British, I'd like to see you being given a damehood.

j

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