Apple Again Cites Inaccurate Evidence in Samsung Patent Case

I sincerely hope courts take this travesty seriously. Intentionally submitting doctored and misleading evidence should be ground for immediate dismissal of the case.

If the charge is that Samsung hardware is so close to Apple's that it would fool a normal reasonable person, isn't doctoring images sort of a tacit admission that it's not? I mean, if you really believed it to be true, why would you bother altering the images?<p>I'm kind of confused about why this affects the patent lawsuit, though. I understand the German trademark dispute, but is the visual look of the iPhone included in the patent?

Interesting point from the article:<p><pre><code> A legal expert on intellectual property cases, who declined to be named, asserted that when pictures are filed both in the complaint and in separate productions, those in the complaint would be considered more important. **Visual evidence presented there typically indicates that the plaintiff wants to emphasize its significance, he said.** </code></pre> Presumably Apple are pretty experienced in the intricacies of patent law so I don't think you can blame the intern who can't use Photoshop...

I'd love to see the image in context. How is Apple using the image? If this is so egregious, then show it all.<p>If Apple's point is "Samsung copies our design slavishly" and the defense is "wait, ours may look identical, but it's 6% larger", then good luck with that.<p>All I see so far is Samsung building devices that are identical to Apple modulo the screens they're able to source. This may be exactly Apple's point.

Summary: Some of the side-by-side images of Apple iPhone &#38; Samsung Galaxy S show the phones apparing visually similar, but the Samsung image has been scaled down 6%.<p>It's the newspaper that claims that the evidence in inaccurate. What would be very interesting is if the court involved also found it inaccurate, but I can't find any decision one way or the other on this...

When your phone is a plain black square with rounded corners, don't they all look the same? <a href="http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/04/htcs-touch-hd-gets-overseas-hands-on-treatment/" rel="nofollow">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/11/04/htcs-touch-hd-gets-ove...</a><p><a href="http://www.theandroider.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/abfd4_17064_motimage_touchzine_hd_face-578x1024.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.theandroider.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/ca...</a><p>Are we really expecting the courts to compare aspect ratios, and corner radii to decide that one is to similar to another?<p>Where will we draw the line? Sorry, Apple, 4" screen with 11mm thickness was already done by htc, your phone is only 2mm thinner, that's too close to the other devices.

Apple has to get this under control. They're burning good will like crazy here. Tech devices have been cloned since the dawn of the industry. They're not meaningfully going to stop this, and this kind of game just makes them look petty and insecure.

That's just pathetic.