Gallery: Apple v. Samsung: Schiller to Testify Friday as Apple Calls on Top Brass
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__Apple Reveals Dozens of Early iPhone Prototypes:__ Just before the tech giants went to trial, a document with around 100 iPhone and iPad prototypes and CAD drawings was released to the public. Above is a version of what Apple dubbed its “excruded” iPhone design, which resembles the iPod with its cylindrical shape.
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__Apple’s Industrial Design Process in Detail:__ On Monday, Apple industrial designer Christopher Stringer took to the stand as Apple’s first witness. Stringer, who’s worked at Apple for almost 17 years, provided some unique insights into Apple’s design process. “Our role is to imagine products that don’t exist and guide them to life,” Stringer said of the role of Apple's ID team. Above is an early iPhone prototype with clipped corners.
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__The Industrial Design Team Works at a Kitchen Table:__ Apple's culturally diverse industrial design team – hailing from Japan, the UK, Germany, the US and Australia, among other locales – has worked together for a very long time. “We work together around a kitchen table,” Stringer said. Above is an early iPad prototype.
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__Samsung Releases Excluded Exhibits to the Public:__ On Tuesday, Samsung lawyer John Quinn [sent out a public statement](http://allthingsd.com/20120731/samsung-goes-public-with-excluded-evidence-to-undercut-apples-design-claims/) decrying Judge Koh’s decision to let Apple say a particular Samsung smartphone, the F700, was an iPhone copy. In retaliation, Samsung publicly released two batches of evidence Koh had ordered be excluded from the case. Judge Koh wasn't pleased when she learned this had happened later that day: “Tell Mr. Quinn I’d like to see him today,” Koh said. “I want to know who drafted the press release, who authorized it from the legal team.”
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__Apple’s Proposed Solution Is Summary Victory:__ Apple’s legal team was quick to act when Samsung released a series of excluded exhibits to the public early this week. On Thursday, it filed a document in response to Samsung lawyer John Quinn’s declaration. ”Apple requests that the Court issue sanctions granting judgment that Apple’s asserted phone design patent claims are valid and infringed by Samsung,” the filing states. You read that correctly – to rectify Samsung's document-releasing mischief, Apple is asking that it basically be awarded summary victory for its design patent claims. Fat chance of that happening. Above, a favorite iPhone prototype of Samsung's case – the mockup has Sony branding.
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__Samsung’s Working on Two Windows Phone 8 Devices:__ Samsung has two 4G LTE Windows Phone 8 devices currently in the works, dubbed the "Odyssey" and "Marco." [The Verge](http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/30/3201323/samsung-odyssey-marco-windows-phone-8-devices) was the first to discover the phones in court documents. Both devices will include a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. The Odyssey will have a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED display and an 8-megapixel camera, as well as NFC. The Marco is the lower-end model of the two, with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display and a 5-megapixel camera. According to a court document, they are set to be released in Q4 of this year.
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__Early iPhone Sketches:__ Above is a collection of sketches Apple's industrial design team drew for the first iPhone. The image was shown in court during Christopher Stringer's testimony.
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