Inside the Apple-Samsung War

[Myles Braithwaite]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:28 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Many of the patents being fought over are lunacy.  Rounded corners?
> Really?

The "rounded corners" was a design patent[1] and not a utility patent.
Apple case (which it won in the first trial) was that people were
going into a store and seeing a Samsung Android phone and thinking it
was an Apple iPhone.

[1]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent>
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