Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) had warned Samsung that its
Galaxy smartphones may violate its iPhone patents, a senior executive in the
company said in court on Saturday.
Apple's director of patent licensing and strategy,
Boris Teksler told the court that he had created a presentation where he had
laid down the patents that the company thought the Korean company was
violating.
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The Cupertino company is suing Samsung for copyright
infringements and copying the designs of its iPhones and iPads and using them
to design its Galaxy range of mobile devices that have become very popular
worldwide.
Teksler said that both Steve Jobs and Tim Cook had
been aware of the patents violation and had spoken to Samsung about it.
In the presentation, that Apple had shown to Samsung
in 2010, Teksler gave details of the patents held by his company including the
ones called `rubber-banding' user interface, email threading and gesture
heuristics.
The presentation also took pains to point out the
similarities between the iPhone and Samsung's devices.
Teksler said that when they noticed the violations
Apple had been shocked by the blatant copy, by a company that it considered to
be a trusted partner.
"We didn’t understand how a trusted partner would
build a copycat product like that,' Teksler said.
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He pointed out that there were three categories of
patents held by Apple: Those required
for standards, those for core computing and those related to Apple’s unique
user interface. Apple was not interested in licensing any of these patents.
Apple would be winding up its prosecution and parade
of witnesses to bolster its accusations on Monday. Samsung will then commence
its defence immediately.
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