![]() "I looked at the grid how close icons were to each other, rounded corners, icon style on the fairly significant area at the bottom. "I concluded that they all reflect the collection of design features that is present in the D305 patent."ĩ:57 - So did any Samsung phones echo this design? What was your test? "It was the same kind of methodical visual analysis," Kare says. She compares screen shots from the iPhone, iPhone 3G, the iPhone 3GS, and the iPhone 4 to the elements described in the patent. "This is interesting because there are a few different styles, you can see the phone at the lower left is very plain as oppose to the lens of the camera at he upper right that is much more detailed," Kare says. This is the judge way of saying 'pay attention.' We proceed.ĩ:53 - Kare ticks through the features covered on Apple's user interface patent that contribute to the overall impression given to a user: a regular grid of square icons with rounded corners, they're colorful icons, with a mix of design styles, the icons have labels with upper and lower case labels in san serif font, and on the bottom of the display there's a row of four icons with a background designed to separate them from the rows above. Judge interupts for a moment to ask the jurors: 'does anyone need any caffeine?' The jurors signal no. The claim on the patent is for the ornamental design on a display screen. We'll start with the design patent, for the display on a smartphone screen. Some do detailed user-interface testing, some don't.ĩ:50 - Kare says she was asked her opinion about four things: Apple's D305 design patents, Apple's trade dress, whether there were viable alternatives to Apple's screen graphics, and whether Samsung copied Samsung's screen graphics. "What a person thinks of a symbol is the heart of what I do," Kare says, speaking of her design process. She's been called the 'Betsy Ross' of computer design, and her work has been profiled in many national and international publications. "I know some number of people have used some hours looking at those cards," Kare says (a litotes!). ICONOGRAPHER MAC WINDOWSShe hasn't done any work for Apple from her design firm.ĩ:45 - Kare's designs include the gifts exchanged on Facebook and the solitaire cards used in Microsoft Windows built-in Solitaire game. ![]() Clients include: Microsoft, IBM, Autodesk, Thomson Reuters,, PayPal, Fossil. "All kinds of different graphics projects for all kinds of clients," Kare says. She now does graphics design, including interfaces, screen icons, watches. Then she went to work at NeXT computer as the creative director before going on to start her own user interface design business. She created the graphics for the Macintosh. ![]() She began work in computer graphics at Apple in 1982, where she worked in the Macintosh group. Krevans, for Apple, begins questioning her.įirst Krevans has Kare go through her credentials: she has a PhD in Art History with New York University. The witness for Apple has argued in the testimony already submitted to the court that Samsung's designs mimic Apple's Her testimony should be dramatic, and Samsung will make every effort to discredit it today. He's trying to show that the design Apple has patented, and that it claims Apple violated, aren't unique enough to have been broken by Samsung's phones.ĩ:35 - Next act: Susan Kare, the original iconographer for the Mac. Verhoeven is asking Bressler to run through the differences between one of Apple's design patents and a Japanese design patent for another company. Charles Verhoeven chewed on Bressler's haunches for several hours yesterday, and now he's back. ICONOGRAPHER MAC CRACKApple needs to show that the Prada phone isn't relevant to Apple's design patent.ĩ:30 - Samsung's lawyers now get another crack at Bressler. Samsung is trying to show that the Prada phone, which arrived before the iPhone, shows that Apple's design patent can't be used to restrict what Samsung can do. Krevans asks Bressler if a phone from Prada, which Samsung questioned Bressler about yesterday at length, violates Apple's design patents? Bressler asserts it does not. Apple attorney Rachel Krevans, a partner with the firm of Morrison and Foerster, is questioning him again, after Samsung's lawyers grilled him Monday. ![]() 9:20 - Bressler returns to finish up his testimony from Tuesday. ![]()
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