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Samsung’s lawyers demand to see the iPhone 5 and iPad 3

by acrum on 5/28/11, 11:26 PM with 37 comments

• by headShrinker on 5/29/11, 3:19 AM

  My brother's first reaction when he saw my galaxy S was 'Wow, they don't even pretend they don't copy Apple anymore.' The phone has an uncanny similar look to the iPhone 3G. I think Apple had a legitimate case and don't understand all the Samsung love here. Apple wanting to see samsung's upcoming model to see if they are again copying, so they can get a jump on the lawsuit? I say 'fair'. Samsung copied the shit out of that phone design, and much of the OS skin. Uncanny resemblance. Samsung, wanting to see Apple's upcoming products? "On what grounds?"

• by ChuckMcM on 5/29/11, 1:00 AM

  I love creativity in a lawyer.

• by tikna on 5/29/11, 2:34 AM

  Impressed by Samsung's reply. As per my opinion, its completely fair to ask for. I felt however, this post is bit biased towards apple.

• by ggoodale on 5/29/11, 4:37 AM

  If the final versions aren’t available, Samsung wants “the most current version of each to be produced instead.”

  Given that Apple hasn't announced an iPad 3 or an iPhone 5, what are the odds they simply ship Samsung's lawyers an iPad 2 and an iPhone 4 and call it good?

• by dhughes on 5/29/11, 5:04 AM

  You would think Samsung could sue Apple for making a phone that plays music the Samsung SGH-M100 was released seven years before the iPhone.

  I wanted a Samsung SGH-M100 so bad but there were rumours the battery would vet hot, swell up and possibly explode.

• by Ruudjah on 5/29/11, 11:37 AM

  What a complete nonsense. The industry moves in certain directions, and everyone is inspired by everyone else. Because there is a thriving legal industry, they call iit "stealing ideas" and "copying". There is no such thing as original design, every design is based on previous designs and adds small new things.

  The only group really benefitting are the lawyers and their surrounding workers. Not our innovating tech industry.

• by maeon3 on 5/29/11, 1:12 AM

  So Samsung is suing Apple to give them the schematics on their top secret hardware so that Apple won't sue Samsung later for copying their top secret hardware?

  That's actually pretty funny. A win/win for Samsung.

  So Apple will probably refuse, then Samsung has an arrow to fire at Apple if they claim Samsung copied their hardware.

  Some of the lawyers from Samsung have been reading a little too deeply into sun tzu's art of war and Robert Green's 48 laws of power.