E-mailing photos from your phone -- something Samsung says it owns in a patent.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Family photos, pieces of fruit, and even a little Bruce Springsteen were woven into Samsung's patent offensive against Apple today.
With three Apple feature patents aimed at nearly two dozen of Samsung's products during the past two weeks of trial, Samsung struck back today with a trio of its own.
On the stand for Samsung was Woodward Yang, a patent specialist who went through how some of Apple's iPhone, iPad, and even iPod Touch models allegedly infringed on three of Samsung's patents covering things like e-mail, photo albums, and playing music in the background of other apps.
That included, cheekily enough, taking photos of oranges...with a slew of Apple devices.
Yet Samsung is hoping for more of an apples to apples comparison (no pun intended), that shows Apple is, in fact, infringing on all three of the company's patents with various software features.
Yang, who has worked as part of Harvard's patent team for the past 20 years, told the court he did "fundamental" work on the beginnings of the first CMOS image sensors for mobile phones, as well as facial recognition and memory technology for feature phones. He's also Samsung's most-researched witness thus far, having spent what he believed to be "300 to 400" hours of examination of ... [Read more]
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