Apple-Samsung trial coverage

EE Times has been all over the ongoing patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The following is a collection of stories from the trial:

Apple vs. Samsung: Reading Steve Jobs' emails
One of the guilty pleasures of covering a multi-billion dollar patent infringement case is you get permission to read the emails of industry executives.

Slideshow: Apple's best evidence on Samsung
Apple released late Tuesday its best evidence that Samsung has copied its patents and trade dress, a 132-page Samsung report comparing its handsets to the iPhone.

Market expert: Samsung diluted, copied Apple
A marketing expert testifying for Apple said he believes Samsung blurred and tried to copy Apple’s trade dress, a conclusion he said internal Samsung documents supported.

Samsung argues over icons, user confusion
Samsung suggested icons are by their very nature, well—iconic—and consumers would not confuse its handsets with iPhones following testimony from an Apple expert.

Is emulating a product the same as stealing?
It's clear that Samsung recognized that the iPhone was a game-changing product and tried to learn from its success. Does that constitute intellectual property theft?

Samsung phones confused graphics expert
“I had the experience of being confused,” said Susan Kare (shown), an expert witness for Apple describing how she picked a Samsung handset instead of an iPhone.

Frustrations bubble over in Apple versus Samsung
Mountains of design and legal details bubbled into frustration as Samsung attorneys tried to discredit an expert witness for Apple and the judge wrestled with attorneys.

Expert says Samsung phones, tablets infringe
An expert witness testifying for Apple said as many as 11 Samsung phones and two tablets infringe Apple design patents.

IPhone created ‘crisis of design’ at Samsung
A Samsung executive said the company had a “crisis of design” because the difference in user interfaces on the iPhone and Samsung handsets were like “Heaven and Earth.”

Apple v Samsung: Rights and Wrongs
Both Apple and Samsung are right—and wrong—and here’s what I think both sides ought to do to get some sanity back into the mobile industry and the patent process.

Court hears of Jobs’ penchant for secrecy
Apple’s penchant for secrecy came into the spotlight in testimony in its patent infringement case Friday as iOS manager Scott Forstall (pictured) took the stand.

Court scrutinizes email from Steve Jobs
Samsung’s attorneys suggested the late Steve Jobs saw an idea that could be useful for the iPhone in a Samsung design, while Apple showed documents suggesting Samsung adopt iPhone techniques.

Schiller ‘shocked’ at ‘copycat’ Samsung phones
Apple’s head of marketing said he was “shocked” when he first saw Samsung’s “copycat” products of the iPhone and iPad that have impacted Apple’s sales.

Judge cracks whip during Apple v. Samsung
Judge Lucy Koh (shown) admonished Apple and Samsung in front of the jury for deluging the court with objections and other motions, shifting practices to keep the case on track.

Samsung lays out countersuit against Apple
In opening statements, Samsung showed prior art on all the patents Apple claims it infringes and details of why it believes Apple infringes a handful of its patents.

A look inside Apple’s kitchen table group
Industrial designer Christopher Stringer gave a rare glimpse into Apple’s product design process in testimony at Apple’s $2.5 billion infringement suit against Samsung.

Apple v. Samsung kicks off innovation debates
The case asks what’s the line between aggressive benchmarking and copying of a competitor’s product and between filing relevant versus submarine patents.