According to sources, in the yesterday’s court proceedings, the Apple
Inc. alleged that Samsung Electronics Co. changed the design of its smart-phone
icons in order give it resemblance to the icons on the iPhone. In the support
of its claim, it presented an internal Samsung document to a jury in
California.
In the excerpts of a 2010 internal Samsung report, which was
presented by the Apple Inc., the Samsung did a side-by- side comparison of its
icon designs next to those of the iPhone.
As per the recommendations of the report, Samsung altered icons that weren’t as
user-friendly as those on Apple’s devices.
Susan Kare, a former Apple graphics designer said in the court that
the icons for the companies’ current competing products are “confusingly
similar”, both being square with round edges and displayed on the device in
rows of four. She also told the jury that while visiting the office of Apple’s
lawyers, she mistook a Samsung smart-phone for an iPhone.Source
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