Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court 495
Several readers sent in a story that's sure to be embarrassing for Samsung. The company has been involved in a drawn-out patent dispute with Apple over similarities between the Galaxy Tab and the iPad. Today, during a court session, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh held up both objects and asked one of Samsung's attorneys whether she could identify which was which. The attorney replied, "Not at this distance, your honor." The distance was roughly 10 feet. The judge then quizzed the rest of Samsung's lawyers. After a brief hesitation, one of them was able to correctly identify the Galaxy Tab.
Good Times. (Score:4, Funny)
No matter how you feel about patents, Apple, or Samsung, this is funny.
Can't differentiate between the two? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe the lawyer was over 24 years old. (Score:4, Funny)
Myself, I can't tell the difference between an iPad and a windows 98 tablet computer at ten feet.
And at fifty feet, you could be holding an etch-a-sketch for all I know. I mean seriously, how much detail do you want me to discern from a nearly featureless slab of plastic?
Re:Not allowed to look closely? (Score:5, Funny)
Hold up a $50 and a $5 at 10 feet and I bet they have no trouble at all distinguishing the two.
Easy [wikipedia.org]. $50s are red. $5s are blue.