[SmokingJoe]

Yet lead Apple designer Christopher Stringer, in testimony July 31, had insisted the rounded corners of the iPhone were one of its key differentiating elements. "Did you say equally rounded corners," Verhoeven had questioned him during his July 31 testimony, as if smitten by the idea for the first time. "Corners with exactly the same radii," Stringer had affirmed. Apple had settled on the design because it was "beautiful" due to its simplicity, balance, and symmetry, and part of the symmetry was equally rounded corners, he said.

Furthermore, Apple's design patents, which have Stringer's name on them, show only rectangular phone bodies with equally rounded corners. The point has been so prominent in the early days of the trial that it came as a something of a shock that no one had measured the rounded corners on Samsung's models, except, of course, Samsung.

[FreedomOfExpression]

Thanks for the update.

[sportutegrl]

Maybe Apple can go after Good Humor next for using rounded corners on their ice cream sandwiches.

[longtermmemmory]

(s) Finally a degree in advanced Star-Trek-ology may pay off!(/s)

[for those in rio linda, star trek used data padds like tablets thoughout their shows]

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Doesn't matter. The judge is so far in the tank for Apple that Samsung could come up with a 30 year-old patent for the iPhone filed by a different company and she would still find for Apple. I don't know if this was an example of judge shopping, or judge shopping...

[vortigern]

Rounded corners or not, the whole industry has been copying Apple for years. Who else is there to copy, Microsoft?