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So-called designer ? Susan Kare is the most famous icon designer of all time.

And she was tasked with analysing ONLY the user interface. So whether the phone has different logos or extra buttons is irrelevant.

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Susan is that you? In all seriousness, what famous designer who used to work for the company in question can't tell the difference between the icons of a Samsung phone and an iPhone that the company she used to work for built? Come on, I will admit the icons are similar but even I can tell the difference between the two interfaces. If a company of Apple's stature is basing its entire court case on a few icons looking similar then that is just sad.

While we're on the subject, why don't we talk about the similarities between the Android pull-down notification menu and that of Apple's which was introduced long after Android implemented it...

I used the iPhone for 6 months (work phone) and purchased a Samsung model as a replacement (in the 2 weeks).

I'm not sure how you could confuse the 2 phones. The functionality of the two are different enough that confusing the two is difficult.

If the similarity is based on icons and using icons to open programs, wasn't this done at PARC? Or the original Mac? I'd think those are both prior art, or possibly even the Palm PDAs.

At this point I'm not sure which phone I like better, both tend to work which is my main requirement.

Look at the LG Prada, released late 2006 -early 2007, has/had a similar home screen to the screen shown in the article that was used for the patent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

I think multiple paths have led to similar (not copied) phones.

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