Industrial designer Peter Bressler.
(Credit: University of Pennsylvania )
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple is once again turning to designers to help make its case that Samsung lifted its smartphone and tablet designs, this time going to a company outsider to prove its point.
In testimony today, Peter Bressler -- a former president of the Industrial Designers Society and the founder and board chair of product design firm Bresslergroup -- said numerous Samsung designs infringed on Apple's patented designs.
"My opinion (is) that there are a number of Samsung phones and two Samsung tablets that are substantially the same as the design in those (Apple) patents," Bressler said.
As a result, Bressler suggested that consumers could confuse one of Samsung's devices with Apple's.
To back that point up, Bressler, the inventor or co-inventor on about 70 patents, went through how nearly a dozen Samsung devices were similar to Apple's. That includes Samsung's first- and second-generation Galaxy S devices, as well as the company's Galaxy tablets.
Bressler also attempted to gut Samsung's prior art defense, which cites a Japanese design patent issued to rival electronics firm Sharp in 2005. That device, which Samsung suggests looks like the iPhone, is unlike the ones depicted in Apple's patents since it has a curved, non-flat front, Bressler argued.
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