Yesterday I told you that Apple is demanding $2.525 billion from Samsung for infringing patents registered for iDevices and I presented you with two images which are used by Apple's lawyers to support their arguments before the courts. Just one day away from the publication of that documentation, here we are Answer from the Samsung company that accuses Apple of hypocrisy and claims that since 2006 it had a concept of a smartphone that looked very much like Apple's iPhone.
Looking at the images, we can conclude that Samsung then had something similar to the iPhone, but the devices they launched after the iPhone look much better to the terminals of the Apple company and not to everything you see here. If Samsung had these concepts then, but did not patent them, then maybe some members of the company's management team should be held accountable and maybe in the future they should be very careful with what they develop. Below are some of the accusations from Samsung.
Apple seeks to exclude Samsung from the market, based on its complaints that Samsung has used the very same public domain design concepts that Apple borrowed from other competitors, including Sony, to develop the iPhone.
Apple's own internal documents show this. In February 2006, before the claimed iPhone design was conceived of, Apple executive Tony Fadell circulated a news article that contained an interview of a Sony designer with Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive and others. In the article, the Sony designer discussed Sony portable electronic device designs that lacked "excessive ornamentation" such as buttons, fit in the hand, were "square with a screen" and had "corners [which] have been rounded out.
Prior to the iPhone's announcement in January 2007, Samsung was already developing numerous products and models with the same design features that Apple now claims were copied from the iPhone.
In the summer of 2006, Samsung began designing its next generation of mobile phones, based on the market trend of ever-increasing screen size. At that time, Samsung's designers envisioned a basic design: a simple, rounded rectangular body dominated by a display screen with a single physical button on the face … [as] documents confirm, Samsung independently developed the allegedly copied design features months before Apple had even announced the iPhone. It did not switch its design direction because of the iPhone.
Apple relied heavily on Samsung's technology to enter the telecommunications space". Samsung supplies the flash memory, main memory, and application processor for the iPhone.
Apple also uses patented Samsung technology that it has not paid for. This includes standards-essential technology required for Apple's products to interact with products from other manufacturers, and several device features that Samsung developed for use in its products.
Apple's utility patents relate to ancillary features that allow users to perform trivial touch screen functions, even though these technologies were developed and in widespread use well before Apple entered the mobile device market in 2007. Samsung does not infringe any of Apple's patents and has located dead -on prior art that invalidates them.
