Apple Witness Says 21 Samsung Phones Copy ‘Rubberbanding’ Patent
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A witness for Apple Inc. testified that 21 Samsung Electronics Co. smartphones copy patented technology for “rubberbanding,” the way an iPad or iPhone screen seems to bounce when a user scrolls to the end of a file.
Ravin Balakrishnan, a University of Toronto professor hired as an expert witness, told the jury today at the companies’ intellectual property trial that Apple’s innovation was designed to tell users “you’ve reached the edge, the system is still alive, and it’s not frozen.”