Samsung Publicly Releases Evidence Banned From Apple Trial

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Posted August 1, 2012 at 1:18am by iClarified

Samsung has publicly released evidence banned from its trial with Apple in an attempt to undermine the company's case, reports AllThingsD.

The evidence which aims to show that Apple copied its design for the iPhone from Sony was released with the following statement attached:

The Judge's exclusion of evidence on independent creation meant that even though Apple was allowed to inaccurately argue to the jury that the F700 was an iPhone copy, Samsung was not allowed to tell the jury the full story and show the pre-iPhone design for that and other phones that were in development at Samsung in 2006, before the iPhone. The excluded evidence would have established beyond doubt that Samsung did not copy the iPhone design. Fundamental fairness requires that the jury decide the case based on all the evidence.

Yesterday, Samsung lawyer John Quinn tried to get the court to admit the evidence again; however, Judge Lucy Koh said she would not as she had already heard three motions to reconsider the point. Quinn persisted to the point where Koh warned that she would sanction him if he continued.

Apple's legal team is calling Samsung's actions contemptible and Koh has called an immediate meeting with Quinn.

"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."

We'll update this story as it develops...

Samsung Publicly Releases Evidence Banned From Apple Trial

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Sg2012 - August 1, 2012 at 6:10pm

so, what samsung is saying is that they didn't copy apple, they copy Sony. ;)

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Jason H - August 1, 2012 at 7:33pm

no samusung is saying apple copied sony, and it kinda looks like it..Apple is keeping their designer shin ninshimori from testifying at the court..

Saavykas - August 1, 2012 at 5:03pm

Racial slurs demonstrate more contemptible behavior than any legal action, contemptible or not. Stop using them; they are irrelevant at best and a perpetuation of a vile "other"-ization of the perfectly human people of an entire country/ethnicity solely upon the basis of a single company's legal team's actions. Do you deserve to be lumped in with the people who committed the wrongs at Enron? You'd chafe at the mere insinuation that you're like those people, yet that is what you are doing.

Brian - August 1, 2012 at 4:49pm

A lot of people complained about Apple suing this company and that company. Yes, but Apple is aggressive yet by-the-books in pursuing law cases. And Samsung, as demonstrated here, is despicable.

Carlos - August 1, 2012 at 12:43pm

or worldwide for the matter

Sean phil - August 1, 2012 at 7:48pm

well they are legit..Samsung f700, for example, was released about a month after the iphone release, which means the products were developed simultaneously. Samsung is using it as demonstration what their phone design looked like prior to the iphone's release, and for some reason, judge doesn't wanna accept it as evidences...

Brian - August 2, 2012 at 10:16pm

Seriously speaking, just because Item A is released earlier in the market than Item B, it doesn't mean there's no copying infringement. They might have jump start the market release based upon insider news from Item B. In my case, B is Apple and A is Samsung. Samsung released F700 earlier than iPhone. While F700 had the same statement as iPhone, it still looks different from iPhone cause their design lines are different. After the release of iPhone, Samsung release their Galaxy S which has the same design lines, design cues, design statement, same everything as the iPhone. And heck, even the software design looks the same. This is my 2 cents which I think Samsung still copied iPhone.

Carlos - August 1, 2012 at 12:19pm

Samsung should just drop out of this one, as they are clearly lying...check out any website with mobile phones history ..F700 and F480 were clearly the only two touch enabled Samsung phones at the time iPhone came out...if they had anything else at their laboratories that is another story...on the market at the time iPhone came out, Samsung or the competition had nothing.Go check it out yourself on gsmarena page 5 or 6 which shows Samsung's portfolio from 2006-2008.Case closed.

Glocknine - August 1, 2012 at 11:03am

Change the judge, kohnis obviously siding with apple.

tdtran1025 - August 1, 2012 at 4:15am

Mr. Quinn must have a bloodline from the Far East. His tenacity of convoluting the circumstances in order to gain feeble tangency to the pertinence of the case is formidable, almost to the point of lunacy. Samsung makes good enough products for the consuming public. They should just scrap the copied design and relaunch it in a new casing. In The Orient, they call that apology without losing face.

Nekton - August 1, 2012 at 1:40am

Samsung has a death wish on this. Contempt of court and summary judgment in favor of Apple is quite possible. Perhaps Samsung counsel sees Judge Koh as hostile and this is a legal tactic to get a mistrial and hearing in another or higher court?

joyz - August 1, 2012 at 1:26am

Typical underhanded kitchen sinks! They'd sell their own mothers to get one up on a foe!

Brian - August 1, 2012 at 1:34am

Based on those limited preview of slides, one question reckons: If Samsung claims that they come up with such a appropriate design in the first place, then why do they tweak the design to look like an iPhone after the iPhone had came Out?

Kev - August 1, 2012 at 11:59am

Case closed .. Apple copied Samsung .. dates dont lie .. we all know Apple copy and improve .. its all they are capable of doing. and there is nothing wrong with that. If I were Samsung I would be counter suing saying that Apple copied Samsungs phone .. based on this data .. if its not at fabricated of course .. Everything is copied .. The TV, the car, they plane, the basics are the same .. but they all have their own subtle diferences .. in the case of the iPhone is the OS .. and thats enough to make it different