http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57...against-apple/
Samsung keeps prior art parade marching against Apple
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Making that case for Samsung was Itay Sherman, chief executive of the multi-touch company DoubleTouch and an inventor with 20 patents to his name. Sherman brought out the same trio of smartphone design patents Samsung used earlier in the case, two of which are Japanese and another that's Korean. In short, Sherman said that features like big screens, rounded corners, and "lozenge" speaker holes in these designs predated what Apple brought out with the iPhone.
When it came to tablets, Sherman suggested that HP's tablet had many of the same features named in Apple's design patent though it was released as a commercial product in 2002, two years before Apple would apply for its tablet design patent, and nearly eight years before the first-generation iPad went public.
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Compaq Tablet from 2002
The Fidler tablet, a prototype device Samsung is pointing to as pre-dating the iPad.
IS THAT A ROUNDED CORNER?