Steve Wildstrom:
Samsung contributed greatly to this with a post-trial statement that said: ““It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies.” It’s more unfortunate that the claim was largely a fabrication that was swallowed whole by many writers.
What a great article by Steve. Go read it.
It’s unfortunate that the general public isn’t reasonable enough to understand this case the way Steve described it. To so many, this was about ’rounded rectangles’ and little more. I’m amazed at how many Android fans try to reduce the case of “trade dress” down to a single element of the total package.