Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. et al
Filing: 1300
TRIAL BRIEF [Public Redacted Version] by Samsung Electronics America, Inc.(a New York corporation), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC(a Delaware limited liability company). (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Joby Martin, # 2 Exhibit 5, # 3 Exhibit 6, # 4 Exhibit 7, # 5 Exhibit 8, # 6 Exhibit 9)(Maroulis, Victoria) (Filed on 7/24/2012) Modified on 8/8/2012 EXHIBIT 5, 6 AND 8 HAVE NOT MANUALLY SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE FOR FILING (dhm, COURT STAFF).
1 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP
Charles K. Verhoeven (Cal. Bar No. 170151)
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ï¶ï Victoria F. Maroulis (Cal. Bar No. 202603)
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CO., LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS
ï±ï´ï AMERICA, INC. and SAMSUNG
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN JOSE DIVISION
ï±ï¸ï APPLE INC., a California corporation,
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CASE NO. 11-cv-01846-LHK
Plaintiff,
SAMSUNGâS TRIAL BRIEF
vs.
ï²ï±ï SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., a
Korean business entity; SAMSUNG
ï²ï²ï ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC., a New
York corporation; SAMSUNG
ï²ï³ï TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company,
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Defendants.
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PUBLIC REDACTED VERSION
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1 I.
INTRODUCTION
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In this lawsuit, Apple seeks to stifle legitimate competition and limit consumer choice to
3 maintain its historically exorbitant profits. Android phones manufactured by Samsung and other
4 companies â all of which Apple has also serially sued in numerous forums worldwide -- offer
5 consumers a more flexible, open operating system with greater product choices at a variety of
6 price points as an alternative to Appleâs single, expensive and closed-system devices.
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That Samsung is able to offer such a wide variety of quality mobile telecommunications
8 devices is no coincidence.
Samsung has been researching and developing mobile
9 telecommunications technology since at least as early as 1991 and invented much of the
10 technology for todayâs smartphones.
Indeed, Apple, which sold its first iPhone nearly twenty
11 years after Samsung started developing mobile phone technology, could not have sold a single
12 iPhone without the benefit of Samsungâs patented technology.
Even as Apple has carried out a
13 coordinated campaign of dragging Samsungâs name through the mud in this lawsuit and in the
14 media, it has used Samsungâs patented technology while flatly refusing to pay for its use.
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For good measure, Apple seeks to exclude Samsung from the market, based on its
16 complaints that Samsung has used the very same public domain design concepts that Apple
17 borrowed from other competitors, including Sony, to develop the iPhone.
Appleâs own internal
18 documents show this. In February 2006, before the claimed iPhone design was conceived of,
19 Apple executive Tony Fadell circulated a news article that contained an interview of a Sony
20 designer to Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive and others.
In the article, the Sony designer discussed Sony
21 portable electronic device designs that lacked âexcessive ornamentationâ such as buttons, fit in the
22 hand, were âsquare with a screenâ and had âcorners [which] have been rounded out.â Ex. 18
23 (DX 649).1
Immediately after this article was circulated internally, Apple industrial designer
24 Shin Nishibori was directed to prepare a | | | | | | | | | design for an Apple phone and had CAD
25 drawings and a three-dimensional model prepared.
See Exs. 1-2 (DX 623; DX 562).
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design changed the direction of the project that yielded
7 the final iPhone designs.
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Contrary to the image it has cultivated in the popular press, Apple has admitted in internal
9 documents that its strength is not in developing new technologies first, but in successfully
10 commercializing them.
When Apple was developing its campaign to promote the first iPhone, it
11 considered â and rejected â advertisements that touted alleged Apple âfirstsâ with the iPhone. As
12 one Apple employee explained to an overly exuberant Apple marketer, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Also contrary to Appleâs accusations, Samsung does not need or want to copy; rather, it
18 strives to best the competition by developing multiple, unique products.
Samsung internal
19 documents from 2006, well before the iPhone was announced, show rectangular phones with
20 rounded corners, large displays, flat front faces, and graphic interfaces with icons with grid
21 layouts.
Furthermore, much of what Apple complains of is the âbenchmarkingâ of competitive
22 products by Samsung.
But this is a universal practice in the smartphone, tablet and other
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24 competitorsâ products.
It involves doing side-by-side product comparisons of
Samsung certainly does this; so does Apple, and so does any company
25 interested in continually improving its products for the benefit of consumers. There is nothing
26 wrong with this common industry practice.
That Apple itself zealously engages in the same type
27 of benchmarking says everything about the disingenuous nature of Appleâs allegation that this
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Appleâs anticompetitive lawsuit should not be rewarded, and Apple should pay Samsung
2 for Appleâs use of Samsungâs patented technology, without which Apple could not have become a
3 successful participant in the mobile telecommunications industry.
4 II.
APPLEâS COPYING ALLEGATIONS ARE BASELESS
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In order to distract from the weakness of its infringement claims, Apple offers misguided
6 allegations of copying that are refuted by evidence of Samsungâs independent creation. Prior to
7 the iPhoneâs announcement in January 2007, Samsung was already developing numerous products
8 and models with the same design features that Apple now claims were copied from the iPhone.
9 In the summer of 2006, Samsung began designing its next generation of mobile phones, based on
10 the market trend of ever-increasing screen size.
At that time, Samsungâs designers envisioned a
11 basic design: a simple, rounded rectangular body dominated by a display screen with a single
12 physical button on the face.
See, e.g.,Exs. 5-6 (DX 522; DX 625).
For example, internal
13 Samsung design presentations from the summer of 2006 showed the following designs Samsung
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One of these designs became the Samsung F700 phone, which was the subject of a Korean
25 design registration application in December 2006, a month before Apple unveiled the iPhone.
26 Ex. 7 (DX 519).
Tellingly, Apple at first included Samsungâs F700 in its indiscriminant
27 âcopyingâ allegations, but later withdrew its infringement charges once Samsungâs prior,
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1 independent creation left Apple no choice but to concede that its copying accusations against that
2 device were false.
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Also during this time period during the Summer and Fall of 2006, Samsung designers
4 envisioned a simple icon interface, with rounded rectangular icons arranged in a grid format,
5 appropriately spaced for the size of the screen and the human hand.
See, e.g., Ex. 8 (DX 566).
6 As one example, an internal Samsung design presentation dated September 14, 2006 showed the
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As these documents confirm, Samsung independently developed the allegedly copied
17 design features months before Apple had even announced the iPhone.
It did not switch its design
18 direction because of the iPhone. Contrary to Appleâs cherry-picked âpreâ and âpostâ iPhone
19 choices of Samsungâs phones, Samsung designed and developed large screen smartphones before
20 the iPhoneâas well as bar type phones, sliders, and folder phones.
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In contrast, Appleâs supposed proof of copying consists of competitive benchmarking and
analysis documents created by Samsung. Apple itself, however, regularly conducts the same
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For its part, Appleâs ârevolutionaryâ iPhone design was derived from the designs of a
2 competitorâSony.
In February 2006, before the claimed iPhone design was conceived of, Apple
3 executive Tony Fadell circulated a news article to Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive and others.
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4 article, a Sony designer discussed Sony designs for portable electronic devices that lacked buttons
5 and other âexcessive ornamentation,â fit in the hand, were âsquare with a screenâ and had âcorners
6 [which] have been rounded out.â Ex. 18 (DX 649).
Right after this article was circulated
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Confirming the origin of the design, these internal Apple
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APPLEâS UTILITY PATENTS
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Appleâs utility patents relate to ancillary features that allow users to perform trivial touch
9 screen functions, even though these technologies were developed and in widespread use well
10 before Apple entered the mobile device market in 2007. Samsung does not infringe any of
11 Appleâs patents and has located dead-on prior art that invalidates them.
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Apple asserts that 23 Samsung products infringe claim 19 of the â381 patent, which claims
Claim 19 of U.S. Patent No. 7,469,381 Patent is Invalid and Not Infringed
14 a touch screen device capable of performing a âbounce-backâ function.
15 not infringe claim 19.
Samsungâs products do
As an initial matter, Apple and its expertâs infringement analysis is
16 improperly limited to ârepresentativeâ products and source code, and generalizations that other
17 products running the same major release of the Android operating system behave in the same way.
18 Products running the same Android release often behave differently, however. Thus, Appleâs
19 reliance on ârepresentativeâ products and source code cannot meet its burden of proving
20 infringement by many of the accused products.
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In addition, Samsungâs products exhibit numerous features that do not meet the limitations
22 of the â381 patent, as interpreted by the Court.
These non-infringing features include (1) a âhold
23 stillâ behavior, where Samsungâs products do not translate the electronic document in a second
24 direction; (2) a general snapping behavior, where Samsungâs products snap forward, not
25 backward, if the user scrolls beyond a threshold point; and (3) a âhard stopâ behavior, where
26 Samsungâs products do not display an area beyond the edge of the electronic document.
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Furthermore, the â381 patent is invalid in light of the prior art that discloses the same
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1 DiamondTouch system developed by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (âMERLâ), the
2 LaunchTile and XNav programs developed by Dr. Benjamin Bederson, and International
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Apple asserts that 25 Samsung products infringe claim 8 of the â915 patent, which claims a
Claim 8 of U.S. Patent No. 7,844,915 Is Invalid and Not Infringed
6 touchscreen device capable of distinguishing between single-input scroll operations and multi7 input gesture operations.
Samsungâs products do not infringe claim 8 for at least two reasons.
8 First, Samsungâs products do not include an âevent objectâ that âinvokes a scrollâ or gesture
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Apple identifies a MotionEvent object in the accused products as the âevent objectâ
10 created in response to detecting user input.
Apple concedes, however, that a completely different
11 objectâthe WebView object, which is not an âevent objectââis the only object that causes
12 scrolling or scaling. Second, Samsungâs products permit multi-finger scrolling, and therefore
13 distinguish between scrolling and gesture operations based on criteria other than the number of
14 inputs, as required by claim 8.
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Moreover, Apple did not invent multi-touch gesture recognition.
The â915 patent is
16 invalid in light of prior art such as the Mandelbrot program installed on MERLâs DiamondTouch
17 system, Japanese Patent Publication Number 2000-163031, and Jefferson Hanâs multi-touch
18 system from the 2005 SIGGRAPH conference.
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Apple asserts that 25 Samsung products infringe claim 50 of the â163 patent, which claims
Claim 50 of U.S. Patent No. 7,864,163 Is Invalid and Not Infringed
21 a touch screen device capable of enlarging and translating a âstructured electronic document.â
22 Apple cannot carry its burden of proving infringement of claim 50, however.
For example,
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1 Apple fails to identify how Samsungâs products display a structured electronic document with a
2 plurality of boxes of content; instead, Appleâs expert merely superimposes rectangles on logical
3 regions of a webpage.
Apple also fails to show that the accused products âdetermin[e] a first box
4 in the plurality of boxes at the location of the first gesture,â because Apple only addresses cases
5 involving a single boxânot a plurality of boxesâat the location of the first gesture. Finally,
6 Apple fails to show that the accused products translate the structured electronic document so that
7 the first and second boxes are substantially centered, because the instances of alleged infringement
8 only show centering in one direction or no direction at all, or cases where no âtranslatingâ occurs
9 because the box is already centered prior to the gesture.
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Moreover, the â163 patent discloses the use of techniques (zooming and panning) that were
11 well-known, as shown by references.
For instance, Dr. Bedersonâs LaunchTile and XNav
12 programs publicly disclosed each limitation of claim 50 prior to Appleâs asserted conception date.
13 The â163 patent is also anticipated by Bryan Agnettaâs prior invention, described in a provisional
14 patent application, No. 60/718,187.
Finally, U.S. Patent Publication No. 2002/0030609
15 reinforces the â163 patentâs lack of novelty by showing a motivation to combine techniques used
16 in application management systems with browser applications on portable electronic devices.
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APPLEâS DESIGN PATENT CLAIMS
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Apple persists in misstating the legal standards for design patent infringement, including as
19 it seeks to present them to the jury during trial.
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Apple must prove that an ordinary observer, conversant with the prior art, would be
Design Patent Infringement Requires Deceptive Similarity
22 deceived into buying the accused product thinking that it was the same design as the patented
23 design. The Supreme Court so held in Gorham Co. v. White, 81 U.S. 511, 528 (1872):
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24 hold, therefore, that if, in the eye of an ordinary observer, giving such attention as a purchaser
25 usually gives, two designs are substantially the same, if the resemblance is such as to deceive such
26 an observer, inducing him to purchase one supposing it to be the other, the first one patented is
27 infringed by the other.â
(emphasis added).
As the Court explained, deception is required and is
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It is persons of the latter class [i.e., ordinary observers] who are the principal purchasers of
the articles to which designs have given novel appearances, and if they are misled, and
induced to purchase what is not the article they supposed it to be, if, for example, they are
led to purchase forks or spoons, deceived by an apparent resemblance into the belief that
they bear the âcottageâ design, and, therefore, are the production of the [patent holder] â¦,
when in fact they are not, the patentees are injured, and that advantage of a market which
the patent was granted to secure is destroyed.
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Id. (emphasis added).
Gorham remains binding precedent, and the Federal Circuitâs en banc decision in Egyptian
Goddess, Inc. v. Swisa, Inc., 543 F.3d 665 (Fed. Cir. 2008), reiterated that Gorham is the sole test
for infringement.
âIn the language used by the Supreme Court in Gorham, 81 U.S. at 528, we
hold that the accused design could not reasonably be viewed as so similar to the claimed design
that a purchaser familiar with the prior art would be deceived by the similarity between the
claimed and accused designs, âinducing him to purchase one supposing it to be the other.ââ 543
F.3d at 681. The Federal Circuit has recited and applied this standard time and time againâboth
before and after Egyptian Goddess.
See, e.g., Crocs v. ITC, 598 F.3d 1294, 1303 (Fed Cir. 2010)
(âTo show infringement under the proper test, an ordinary observer, familiar with the prior art
designs, would be deceived into believing that the accused product is the same as the patented
design.â) (emphasis added); Richardson v. Stanley Works, Inc., 597 F.3d 1288, 1295 (Fed. Cir.
2010) (infringement occurs where âan ordinary observer would be deceived into thinking that any
of the [accused] designs were the same as [the] patented designâ) (emphasis added); Amini
Innovation Corp. v. Anthony California, Inc., 439 F.3d 1365, 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2006) (âIf a design
includes both functional and ornamental features, infringement occurs if an ordinary person
âwould be deceived by reason of the common features in the claimed and accused designs which
are ornamental.ââ (quoting Read Corp. v. Portec, Inc., 970 F.2d 816, 825 (Fed. Cir. 1992))
(emphasis added)).
Apple concedes that Gorhamâs âsuch as to deceiveâ language is âan elaboration on how
similar two designs must be to be âsubstantially the same.ââ See Disputed Jury Instructions, Dkt
No. 1232 at 164.
legal test.
Yet, Apple advocates withholding from the jury this indispensable aspect of the
Id. Apple likewise seeks to truncate Gorhamâs language that deception must be
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1 considered in the purchasing context.
Dkt No. 1232 at 165. As its justification, Apple contends
2 that Samsung supposedly uses the phrase âto suggest that there needs to be evidence of deception
3 of a consumer purchasing a Samsung product for an Apple product in order to prove
4 infringement.â
Dkt No. 1232 at 164.
Tellingly, Apple cites nothing where Samsung has
5 advocated such a requirement. Also contrary to Appleâs suggestion, courts have repeatedly
6 found evidence of deception â or lack thereof â in the real world purchasing context to be
7 relevant to the inquiry.
See, e.g., L.A. Gear, Inc. v. Thom McAn Shoe Co., 988 F.2d 1117, 1125-
8 26 (upholding a design patent infringement ruling based on evidence of real world confusion
9 between products); Arminak & Assocs. Inc. v. Saint-Gobain Calmar, Inc., 501 F.3d 1314, 1324
10 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (relying on expert and lay testimony there would be no confusion between
11 patenteeâs product and accused product); OddzOn Prods, Inc. v. Just Toys, Inc., 122 F.3d 1396,
12 1405-07 (Fed. Cir. 1997) (finding real world confusion evidence relevant but insufficient because
13 it did not factor out functional features).
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As another justification for its misstatements of the Gorham test, Apple complains that
15 âemphasis on the âpurchaseâ phrase in Gorham may mislead the jury away from focusing on and
16 comparing the claimed designs.â Id. at 165 (emphasis in original). But informing the jury
17 about the proper legal standard as articulated by binding precedent is scarcely a distraction or
18 misleading.
Indeed, the very definition of what makes two designs âsubstantially the sameâ is
19 that the ordinary observer would be deceived in purchasing.
âTwo designs are substantially the
20 same if their resemblance is deceptive to the extent that it would induce an ordinary observer,
21 giving such attention as a purchaser usually gives, to purchase an article having one design
22 supposing it to be the other.â Door-Master Corp. v. Yorktowne, Inc., 256 F.3d 1308, 1313-14
23 (Fed. Cir. 2001) (emphasis added); see also Arminak, 501 F.3d at 1321 (âThis test requires an
24 objective evaluation of the question of whether a hypothetical person called the âordinary
25 observerâ would find substantial similarities between the patented design and the accused design,
26 so as to be deceived into purchasing the accused design believing it is the patented design.â)
27 (emphasis added). This Court has recognized this as well, expressly ruling that âdesigns are
28 âsubstantially the same, if the resemblance is such as to deceive [an ordinary observer], inducing
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1 him to purchase one supposing it to be the other.ââ
Dkt No. 449 at 9-10 (quoting Egyptian
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Apple argues that â[m]inor differences should not prevent a finding of infringement.â
Minor Differences Matter
5 Dkt No. 1232 at 157.
But this is contrary to law.
6 assumed to be familiar with the prior art.
The hypothetical ordinary observer is
Egyptian Goddess, 543 at 681-83.
Here, the crowded
7 field of art includes a spectrum of rectangular devices with rounded corners, flat surfaces, bezels,
8 display screens with borders around them, and lozenge shapes above display screens.
9 Accordingly, the hypothetical ordinary observer will readily identify and take into account
10 differences that may go unnoticed in the abstract, such as the specific roundness of a corner,
11 thickness of a border, or shape of a bezel.
â[D]ifferences between the claimed and accused
12 designs that might not be noticeable in the abstract can become significant to the hypothetical
13 ordinary observer who is conversant with the prior art.â Egyptian Goddess, 543 F.3d at 678; see
14 also id. (â[W]hen the claimed design is close to the prior art designs, small differences between
15 the accused design and the claimed design are likely to be important to the eye of the hypothetical
16 ordinary observer.â) (emphasis added). This Court too has recognized this already, noting that
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This and other formulations of the test appear verbatim in Samsungâs instruction, yet Apple
erroneously suggests that Samsung is rewording the standard. Dkt No. 1232 at 164. Apple also
quarrels with the phrase âdeceptively similarâ used in Samsung instructions as shorthand for the
infringement test. This is surprising because the phrase is pulled straight out of Federal Circuit
precedent. Just two years ago in Richardson v. Stanley Works, for example, the Federal Circuit
stated that âinfringement cannot be found unless the accused product creates an appearance
deceptively similar to the claimed design.â 597 F.3d at 1296 (citing Egyptian Goddess). In
Arminak v. Saint-Gobain, the Federal Circuit commended the trial court for applying the design
patent infringement test âin the proper mannerâ because it âdetermine[d] whether an ordinary
observer would find the accused design deceptively similarâ to the patented design. 501 F.3d
1314, 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2007). And Egyptian Goddess itself said that where an accused design
copies a novel feature of the asserted design, it is âmore likely to be regarded as deceptively
similar to the claimed design, and thus infringing.â 543 F.3d at 677 (emphasis added).
Appleâs related objection to Samsungâs design patent infringement instruction that the phrase
âdeceptively similarâ is used instead of the phrase âsubstantially the sameâ in what is otherwise a
direct quote from Arminak is wrong. Dkt No. 1232 at 165. As shown, the phrase âdeceptively
similarâ was the choice of the Arminak Court itself. It is not the creation of Samsung.
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1 âthe prior art references identified by Samsung, as well as the overall simplicity of the Dâ677
2 patent, may make minor differences between the patent-in-suit and the front view of the Infuse 4
3 â for example, the addition of buttons and writing on the Samsung Infuse 4 that are not present in
4 the Apple patents â take on greater significance in the eyes of the ordinary observer.â Dkt No.
5 449 at 27; see also id at 26 (âMoreover, given the simplicity of the design at issue, and the fact
6 that consumers purchasing this product are purchasing an expensive electronic device, minor
7 differences between the patent and the accused device are likely to take on greater significance in
8 the eyes of the ordinary observer.â).
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Minor differences that are important to the ordinary observer conversant with the prior art
10 can certainly prevent a finding of infringement.
For example, in Smith v. Whitman Saddle Co.,
11 148 U.S. 674 (1893), a case heavily relied on in Egyptian Goddess, the hypothetical ordinary
12 observer was held to distinguish the accused and claimed saddle designs based solely on the angle
13 of the drop at the rear of the pommel because a combination of prior art designs yielded a design
14 having all but that feature.
Id. at 682; see also Arminak v. Saint-Gobain, 501 F.3d 1314, 1324-25
15 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (finding ordinary observer would not be deceived where only minor differences
16 existed). As another example, in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Hercules Tire & Rubber Co.,
17 162 F.3d 1113, 1115 (Fed. Cir. 1998), the plaintiff asserted infringement of the patent on the left
18 below by the design on the right.
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26 designs, we affirm the conclusion that the trucker as ordinary observer would notice the
27 differences in the designs and recognize that they are not colorably the same.â Id. at 1121-22.
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1 infringement is therefore unsupported by law and misleading. This is especially true where, as
2 here, Apple is claiming only parts of a hand-held device with minimal features.
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Design Patents Do Not Protect The Shape Or Configuration Of A Design
Absent The Surface Ornamentation
Apple urges that its design patents cover the shape or configuration of an article regardless
of the surface ornamentation. This is contrary to precedent as well as legislative amendments to
the Patent Act, which currently permits design patents only for the ânew, original, and ornamental
design for an article of manufacture.â 35 U.S.C. 171 (emphasis added).
The Patent Act previously offered protection for shapes, but that provision was removed
over a century ago.
Before then, the Patent Act protected a range of design patent types
including those for âany new, useful, and original shape or configuration of any article of
manufacture.â Act of July 8, 1870, c. 230, § 71, 16 Stat. 209 (emphasis added); see also Act of
Aug. 29, 1842, c. 263, § 3, Stat. 543 (providing protection for âany new and original shape or
configuration of any article of manufactureâ) (emphasis added).
section with what is essentially the language in effect today.
In 1902, Congress replaced that
See Act of May 9, 1902, c. 783, §
4929, 32 Stat. 193 (âAny person who has invented any new, original, and ornamental design for
an article of manufacture . . .â) (emphasis added); Act of July 19, 1952, c. 950, § 171, 66 Stat. 805
(âWhoever invents any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture may
obtain a patent therefor . . .â); see also 37 C.F.R. § 1.153 (âThe claim shall be in formal terms to
the ornamental design for the article (specifying name) as shown, or as shown and described.â).
Federal Circuit law confirms that design patents are âlimited to ornamentationâ and âdo
not and cannot include claims to the structural or functional aspects of the article.â Lee v.
Dayton-Hudson, 838 F.2d 1186, 1188 (Fed. Cir. 1988). There, the Court cited to the current
statute in rejecting the patenteeâs argument that âthe novelty of his design resides in its basic
configuration, not the surface detailsâ.
ornamental feature.
Id. Relatedly, mere symmetry is also not a protectable
In re Carletti, 328 F.2d 1020, 1022 (Cust. & Pat. App. 1964) (âThe creation
or origination of an ornamental design does not reside in the mere avoidance of dissymmetry.â).
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1 Appleâs attempt to assert its patents to monopolize the shape of an article irrespective of the
2 surface details found in either the patent or the accused devices is contrary to law.
3 V.
SAMSUNGâS PATENT INFRINGEMENT CLAIMS AGAINST APPLE
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Unlike Apple, which was not a participant in the mobile communications industry until it
5 released the first iPhone in mid-2007, Samsung began developing mobile communications
6 technology in 1991. Samsung has since invested billions of dollars in developing the backbone
7 of the industry and the wireless standards necessary for smartphones.
Between 2005 and 2010
8 alone, Samsung invested $35 billion in research and development relating to telecommunications
9 technology, with over 20,000 engineers worldwide dedicated to telecommunications research and
10 development.
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Apple relied heavily on Samsungâs technology to enter the telecommunications space, and
12 it continues to use Samsungâs technology to this day in its iPhone and iPad products.
For
13 example, Samsung supplies the flash memory, main memory, and application processor for the
14 iPhone. Samsung also manufactures Appleâs A5X processor and is the sole supplier of the
15 Retina display used in the new iPad. But Apple also uses patented Samsung technology that it
16 has not paid for. This includes standards-essential technology required for Appleâs products to
17 interact with products from other manufacturers, and several device features that Samsung
18 developed for use in its products.
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Appleâs Infringement of Samsungâs Standards Patents
Standards organizations are an important part of telecommunications technology, setting
requirements that ensure that components from different manufacturers are compatible. The
most important telecommunications organization is the European Telecommunications Standards
Institute, or ETSI, which produces global standards for information and communications
technologies. ETSI creates these standards in âworking groupâ meetings in which companies
submit proposals identifying a new standard or an improvement on an existing standard.
Samsung has played an active role in these working group meetings, and its contributions have
helped build the standards used in the telecommunications industry. Some of these contributions
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1 are the subject of the three standards-essential patents at issue in this lawsuit, which Apple uses
2 and benefits from through its compliance with ETSI standards.
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The first of these, U.S. Patent No. 7,675,941 (âthe â941 patentâ), is directed to a âmethod
4 and apparatus for transmitting/receiving packet data using pre-defined length indicator in a mobile
5 communications system.â
In general, the â941 patent allows a cell phoneâs processor to quickly
6 determine what kind of data is being sent, allowing for less computing time, faster data speeds and
7 longer battery lives. Specifically, when data is transmitted in a mobile device it is first broken
8 into chunks and these chunk broken into even smaller groups. When the data is received, a
9 computer processor re-assembles the smaller groups back into the original data. The â941 patent
10 recognizes which of these smaller groups of data can be processed most quickly and then unpacks
11 those particular groups and immediately forwards them to the correct component, reducing the
12 time and resources required to process data and resulting in faster data transfer.
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This technology, referred to as the âAlternative E-Bit Technology,â is required by the
14 3GPP specification.
In order to sell a wireless phone, Apple must comply with the 3GPP
15 specification, which necessitates use of the Alternative E-Bit Technology. Appleâs products
16 therefore benefit from the Alternative E-Bit Technology and infringe Samsungâs â941 patent.
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Samsungâs second standards patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,447,516 (âthe â516 patentâ), is
18 directed to a âmethod and apparatus for data transmission in a mobile telecommunication system
19 supporting enhanced uplink service.â The â516 patent keeps the power used by radio antennae
20 on mobile devices below the limit imposed by the Federal Government, while simultaneously
21 ensuring that all necessary information is still sent.
The â516 patent thus helps reduce
22 interference in crowded networks and helps calls intended for one person from being overhead by
23 others. Appleâs infringement of the â516 patent is confirmed by its compliance with the 3GPP
24 standard as well as third-party testing documents.
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Appleâs FRAND Defenses Are Meritless
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Long before Apple even announced any of its 3G products that use Samsungâs standards-
27 essential technology, Samsung had offered licenses for these patents(along with other patents) to
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1 deals with all of them. After Apple released products that use the technology patented in the
2 â941 and â516 patents, Samsung similarly offered a cross-licensing deal to Apple, asking for a fair
3 and reasonable royalty in return for Appleâs use of Samsungâs technology.
Unlike all the major
4 players in the mobile phone industry, however, Apple refused to enter a cross-licensing deal with
5 Samsung.
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Instead, despite the fact that virtually every other major industry participant was willing to
7 take a license from Samsung for use of the standards-essential patents in this suit, Apple claimed
8 that Samsungâs patents are unenforceable because, according to Apple, Samsung should have
9 disclosed these patents to ETSI during the working group discussions concerning the technology.
10 But the â941 and â516 patents did not even exist at that point. What Apple is really arguing is
11 that Samsung should have disclosed confidential Korean patent applications during the working
12 group discussionsâbut this is contrary to ETSIâs own rules, which expressly exclude confidential
13 information from ETSIâs disclosure requirements for intellectual property rights, or so-called
14 IPRs.
In fact, ETSIâs Guide on IPRs instructs ETSI members that technical meetings are not an
15 appropriate place for discussion of IPRs.
And Appleâs own expert on this issue, a former
16 Chairman of the Board of ETSI, has stated that he cannot recall a participant ever disclosing IPRs
17 in the working group meetings.
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Apple argues in the alternative that Samsungâs proposed royalty is not fair and reasonable,
19 but Samsungâs opening offer to Apple is consistent with the royalty rates other companies charge
20 for use of their standards-essential patents. Moreover, Apple never even made a counteroffer.
21 Instead, it simply rejected Samsungâs opening offer, refused to negotiate further and to this day
22 has not paid Samsung a dime for Appleâs use of Samsungâs standards-essential technology.
Appleâs Infringement of Samsungâs â460, â711 and â893 Patents
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In addition to infringing Samsungâs standards patents, Appleâs products use features
25 invented and patented by Samsung, and infringe the three remaining patents Samsung has asserted
26 in this lawsuit. The first of these patents, U.S. Patent No. 7,577,460 (âthe â460 patentâ), is
27 directed to the integration of a cell phone, digital camera and email technologies in a single device.
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1 as a five-step method performed on a camera phone. Together, these five steps describe three
2 core functions performed on a camera phone â sending text-only emails, sending emails
3 displaying both text and an image, and sequentially displaying images stored on the device.
4 Appleâs products perform the five steps and three core functions described in the â460 patent.
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The technology patented by the second of Samsungâs feature patents, U.S. Patent No.
6 7,456,893 (âthe â893 patentâ), is also used by Appleâs iPhones and iPads. The â893 patent allows
7 users to bookmark an image in an image gallery so that, after taking new pictures with the camera,
8 the user returns to that same image instead of the new images. At the time of this invention,
9 galleries on digital cameras displayed the most recently captured image, which resulted in users
10 losing their place in the image gallery if they paused to take new photos.
Samsungâs
11 bookmarking invention is described in claim 10 of the â893 patent, which is infringed by Appleâs
12 iPhones and iPads.
Importantly, Apple did not incorporate this patented feature into any of its
13 devices until seven months after the â893 Patent issued.
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The third of Samsungâs asserted feature patents, U.S. Patent No. 7,698,711 (âthe â711
15 patentâ), addresses the longstanding problem earlier mobile devices had with allowing users to
16 multi-task while listening to music in the background. The patented technology solved this
17 problem by providing users with the ability to play music in the background while simultaneously
18 accessing other programs and menus.
Appleâs products use this feature and infringe Samsungâs
19 â711 patent.
20 VI.
DAMAGES
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Unlike Samsungâs Reasonable Royalty Claims, Appleâs Claims For Lost
Profits and Disgorgement of Samsungâs Profits Lack Credibility
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Appleâs overreaching claim for damages is a natural extension of its attempt to monopolize
24 the marketplace.
It demands the entirety of Samsungâs revenues on the accused phones and
25 tablets for the alleged infringement of a design patent that shows little more than a blank rectangle
26 with rounded corners.
It seeks to collect âlost profitsâ despite the fact that no one buys phones
27 because they have âbounce backâ feature or other manifestations of Appleâs alleged inventions
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1 asserted in this case.
Damages are meant to compensate, not confer an absurd windfall at the
2 expense of competitions and consumers worldwide.â
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Samsung, on the other hand, has simply demanded a reasonable royalty for its patents.
4 Samsung invested billions of dollars in researching and developing wireless technology, including
5 contributions Samsung has made to the UMTS standard. The UMTS standard is important to the
6 performance of smartphones and, like other smartphone manufacturers, Apple charges consumers
7 a premium for devices that use UMTS standards because they perform better.
Unlike Samsung,
8 however, Apple did not contribute to the development of the UMTS standard. Nor has Apple
9 paid for its use of the UMTS technology Samsung developed.
Apple should not be allowed to
10 free-ride on Samsungâs investments without paying for the use of Samsungâs technology.
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Samsungâs royalty rate for its standards patents is a reasonable percentage of the selling
12 price of the device using the UMTS standard, which is consistent with other industry license rates
13 for smartphones using standards patents.
While Samsungâs standards patents enable a mobile
14 device to actually work, Samsungâs feature patents make mobile devices more convenient for
15 people to use. Consequently, the royalty for those patents is less.
17
Under Section 289, Apple May Only Recover Profits From The Allegedly
Infringing Cases Of Samsungâs Products, Not Their Functional Contents And
Components.
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Apple seeks to recover windfall profits that bear no proportion to any claimed harm to
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19 Apple or alleged wrongful gains by Samsung.
According to Apple, the cases of Samsungâs
20 phones and tablets are infringing because those cases infringe Appleâs patented designs. Yet
21 Apple seeks all of Samsungâs profits from sales of the accused phones and tablets on the grounds
22 that 35 U.S.C. § 289 purportedly grants such a windfall â even if the non-infringing contents of
23 Samsungâs devices are in fact what creates Samsungâs profits.
Appleâs request for a non-
24 compensatory windfall overlooks Section 289âs requirement that profits disgorgement be limited
25 to the âarticle of manufactureâ to which a patented design is applied, and is contrary to law. The
26 Court has not previously addressed the identity of Section 289âs âarticle of manufactureâ as
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1 applied to the Dâ889, Dâ087 and Dâ677 design patents; it will need to do so should liability be
2 found.
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The Federal Circuit explained in Nike Inc. v. Wal-Mart Stores, 138 F.3d 1437, 1442 (Fed.
4 Cir. 1998), that the legislature removed âthe need to apportion the infringerâs profits between the
5 patented design and the article bearing the designâ in the Act of 1887, which led to the current
6 Section 289.
It remains necessary under Section 289, however, to determine the amount of
7 profits earned from the âarticle of manufacture to which [the patented] design or colorable
8 imitation has been appliedâ. 35 U.S.C. § 289.
A Second Circuit case explains how to make that
9 determination where, as here, the product that is sold consists of an ornamental case that surrounds
10 a functional core.
See Bush & Lane Piano Co. v. Becker Bros., 222 F. 902, 903-904 (2d Cir.
11 1915) (âBush & Lane Pianoâ); see also Bush & Lane Piano Co. v. Becker Bros., 234 F. 79 (2d
12 Cir. 1916) (opinion after remand) (âBush & Lane Piano IIâ).
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In Bush & Lane Piano, the plaintiff proved infringement of its patented design for a piano
14 case â i.e., âthe structure which incloses and holds in position the piano proper, viz., the part
15 which produces the music. The former appeals to the eye, the latter to the ear.â 222 F. at 903.
16 Applying the Act of 1887, the predecessor to Section 289, the Court reversed an award of âthe
17 entire profits of the sales of the piano and case,â holding instead that only âthe profits upon the
18 sale of the caseâ could be disgorged.
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Id. The Court explained:
To attribute the sale of 958 Imperial pianos solely to the design of the case which
inclosed them seems unwarranted. Such a supposition is unsupported by the proof
and involves too violent a presumption to be accepted. What Lane invented was a
piano case, not a piano. He received a patent for a âpiano caseâ and not for a piano,
but he has recovered the profits on 958 pianos.
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A dissent urged that all profits from piano sales properly were awarded under the Act
23 of 1887 because âthe article which the complainant manufactures and sells is a piano and the
24 article to which the design is applied is a piano,â and the âcomplainant neither manufactures the
25 case nor sells it separately.â
Id. at 905-06 (Ward, J., dissenting).
But for the majority,
26 â[w]hen the patent owner is awarded the profits due to his design he receives all he is entitled to.
27 If the rule be established that a design for a case enables the owner to collect damages for the case
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1 A design for a watch case will include the watch itself. A design for a gun case will include the
2 gun, a design for a hat case will include the hat and so on.â Id. at 905.
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This holding is fully consistent with Section 289, and the Act of 1887 on which it is based.
4 As the Federal Circuit explained in Nike, the Act of 1887 was a response to a âseries of cases
5 involving carpet designs,â where infringing defendants were found âliable for no more than
6 ânominal damagesâ of six cents because the patentees could not show what portion of their losses
7 or the infringersâ profits was due to the patented design and what portion was due to the
8 unpatented carpet.â Nike, 138 F.3d at 1441. The legislature removed âthe need to apportion the
9 infringerâs profits between the patented design and the article bearing the designâ in response.
10 Id. But this removal of the need to apportion did not remove the need to limit an award of profits
11 to âthe article bearing the designâ itself, and to determine what the article bearing the design
12 actually is.
Id.
In Bush & Lane Piano, the article bearing the design was the infringing piano
13 case; without engaging in apportionment proscribed by the Act of 1887, profits therefore were
14 properly âconfined to the subject of the patent - a piano case.â 222 F. at 904. This presents an
15 unresolved issue that will require the Courtâs attention; while the Court has previously addressed
16 apportionment under Section 289, see June 29, 2012 Order at 9, it has not resolved what the
17 relevant âarticle of manufactureâ is as applied to Appleâs design patents.
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In some cases the article bearing the infringing design is inseparable from the entire article
19 as sold, and therefore all profits from sales of the article are recoverable under Section 289. An
20 infringing carpet design, see Dobson v. Dornan, 118 U.S. 10 (1886), or a design for a spoon
21 handle, see Gorham v. White, 81 U.S. 511 (1871), âis inseparable from the article to which it is
22 attached, or of which it is a part,â and all profits from sales of such infringing products are
23 recoverable. Bush & Lane Piano, 222 F. at 904. By contrast, a âpatent for a âbook bindingâ
24 cannot, either justly or logically, be so identified with the entire book as to give all the profits on a
25 work of literary genius to the patentee of a binding, although the binding was manufactured with
26 and for that one book, and has no separate commercial existence. The binding and the printed
27 record of thought respond to different concepts; they are different articles.â Bush & Lane Piano
28 II, 234 F. at 81-82. So too as to the outer case of a functional product. Even though the piano
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1 âcase and works were merely component parts of an integral whole, and [] there was no instance
2 of a sale of a piano without a case, or a case without works,â only profits attributable to the case
3 itself could be awarded because the case, and not the piano works, was âthe article to which the
4 design was appliedâ. Id. at 79, 83 (affirming award of profits based on proportionate cost of case
5 versus works).
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Any ruling that grants âthe owner of a design patent for a receptacle intended to hold an
7 expensive article of manufacture the profits made on the sale of the receptacle and its contents,
8 must certainly lead to inequitable results and cannot be sustained.â Bush & Lane Piano, 222 F.
9 at 904-905.
Apple seeks precisely such a ruling from the Court.
Following the Second
10 Circuitâs guidance, the Court should reject Appleâs request for windfall profits that are not
11 attributable to the allegedly infringing phone and tablet cases sold by Samsung.
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SULLIVAN, LLP
By
/s/ Victoria F. Maroulis
Victoria F. Maroulis
Attorneys for SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,
LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA,
INC., and SAMSUNG
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC
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