Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. et al

Filing 1477

NOTICE by Samsung Electronics America, Inc.(a New York corporation), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC(a Delaware limited liability company) Samsung's Proffer Regarding Exhibit 628 (Maroulis, Victoria) (Filed on 7/30/2012)

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1 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP Charles K. Verhoeven (Cal. Bar No. 170151) 2 charlesverhoeven@quinnemanuel.com 50 California Street, 22nd Floor 3 San Francisco, California 94111 Telephone: (415) 875-6600 4 Facsimile: (415) 875-6700 5 Kevin P.B. Johnson (Cal. Bar No. 177129) kevinjohnson@quinnemanuel.com 6 Victoria F. Maroulis (Cal. Bar No. 202603) victoriamaroulis@quinnemanuel.com th 7 555 Twin Dolphin Drive 5 Floor Redwood Shores, California 94065 8 Telephone: (650) 801-5000 Facsimile: (650) 801-5100 9 Michael T. Zeller (Cal. Bar No. 196417) 10 michaelzeller@quinnemanuel.com 865 S. Figueroa St., 10th Floor 11 Los Angeles, California 90017 Telephone: (213) 443-3000 12 Facsimile: (213) 443-3100 13 Attorneys for SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS 14 AMERICA, INC. and SAMSUNG TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC 15 16 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 17 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN JOSE DIVISION 18 APPLE INC., a California corporation, Plaintiff, 19 20 CASE NO. 11-cv-01846-LHK vs. 21 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., a Korean business entity; SAMSUNG 22 ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC., a New York corporation; SAMSUNG 23 TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, 24 Defendants. 25 SAMSUNG’S PROFFER REGARDING EXHIBIT 628 (FILE WRAPPER FOR APPLE’S U.S.P.T.O. TRADEMARK APPLICATION ON THE HOME BUTTON) 26 27 28 02198.51855/4881820.2 Case No. 11-cv-01846-LHK SAMSUNG’S PROFFER REGARDING EXHIBIT 628 (FILE WRAPPER FOR APPLE’S U.S.P.T.O. TRADEMARK APPLICATION ON THE HOME BUTTON) 1 Exhibit 628 is the file wrapper for Apple’s application to the USPTO for a registered 2 trademark on its purportedly iconic home button. The document is a public filing by Apple at 3 odds with its experts’ statements, reports, and surveys, which were not disclosed until the expert 4 discovery period after fact discovery had already closed. In the report of Apple expert Russell 5 Winer, Mr. Winer relied on articles, which Apple produced only after fact discovery, that did not 6 exclude the home button from Apple’s alleged trade dress, even though Mr. Winer had defined it 7 to exclude that element. (Expert Report of Russell Winer at ¶¶ 16, 18.) Samsung relies on 8 Exhibit 628 to show that the articles relied upon by Mr. Winer do not support his conclusions that 9 the alleged trade dress was recognized or famous without the home button in light of Apple’s own 10 statements that the button is such a “prominent” and “recognizable” part of Apple’s design, and 11 Samsung cross-examined Mr. Winer with Exhibit 628 at his April 27, 2012 deposition. (April 27, 12 2012 deposition of Russell Winer at 325-347.) The document was also earlier used in the 13 deposition of Apple’s design expert, Peter Bressler, on April 23, 2012. (April 23, 2012 deposition 14 of Peter Bressler at 236-256.) In support of its argument Samsung relies on Exhibit 628 because 15 it contains admissions by Apple that the home button is prominent, iconic, and instantly 16 recognizable, and serves a significant source-identifying function on Apple products, including the 17 iPad. 18 19 DATED: July 30, 2012 20 21 22 23 24 25 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP By /s/ Victoria F. Maroulis Charles K. Verhoeven Victoria F. Maroulis Kevin P.B. Johnson Michael T. Zeller Attorneys for SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC., and SAMSUNG TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC 26 27 28 02198.51855/4881820.2 Case No. 11-cv-01846-LHK -1SAMSUNG’S PROFFER REGARDING EXHIBIT 628 (FILE WRAPPER FOR APPLE’S U.S.P.T.O. TRADEMARK APPLICATION ON THE HOME BUTTON)

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