Key witness in Apple-Samsung trial leaves Apple, doesn't want to testify

Last week, we told you how early designs for the Apple iPhone in 2006 were based on a Bloomberg article about the designs of Sony's mobile devices. Samsung says that the article was passed directly to Apple CEO Steve Jobs and designer Jonathan Ive and sketches made by Apple became the starting point for the OG Apple iPhone. The Apple employee who took the Bloomberg article and turned it into the sketches cited by Samsung was Shin Nishibori. Nishibori no longer works for Apple and with that in mind, he believes that he does not need to testify and says through his attorney, that he will not appear in court. The letter claims that the subpoena to Shin Nishibori was not properly served

In a letter to the court dated Sunday, Nishibori's attorney said his client no longer is employed by Apple and is in Hawaii trying to recover from a health issue. The Industrial Designer has also updated his LinkedIn page to account for his leaving Apple. The Cupertino based firm is listed among Nishibori's past employers and shows him leaving the company this month after a ten year career at the tech titan.

Samsung claims that Nishibori's drawings show that Apple was influenced by Sony when making the Apple iPhone designs that Samsung is accused of copying with its Galaxy line of handsets and tablets. Nishibori has been listed on Samsung's witness list and in the past the Korean manufacturer has had some trouble finding him. In a previous filing with the court, Samsung said that Apple refused to make the Industrial Designer available claiming that he was on a leave of absence. After showing the court some tweets made by Nishibori relating to world travel and running 10K races, the Korean based manufacturer took his deposition this past May.

Samsung wants to show the court that Apple did not own the design that it claims Samsung stole from them. By calling Nishibori to the stand, Sammy's attorneys can try to show that the former Apple employee got his idea for the original iPhone design sketches from Sony. This could mean that Apple might not have a legal standing in the case. Without his testimony, Samsung's job gets a little harder. The trial opens Monday with jury selection.

Key witness in Apple-Samsung trial leaves Apple, doesn't want to testify

Apple might be shook seems kind of odd dude just left the company a month ago

So Apple is hiding witnesses now. And people defend this company. No integrity whatsoever over there.

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From what it looks like, Apple really did use those Sony designs to create the Iphone. Innovation my a**.

Apple does not give Samsung any access to a witness that can potentially testify against Apple in Samsung's defense, and then the witness ends up leaving Apple a month later. And I am supposed to believe that is just a coincidence.

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its all gonna come back to bite them....hopefully the dude gets called in...says yes...and sony turns around and owns apple next month

it's sad how far apple stoops to cover their tracks

this will prolly be going on 10 years from now

This is gonna be interesting because if your intellectual property is not proprietary to said person/corporate personhood than what about movies and music? Distribution of data is not physical theft at this point will that change?

Mark Zuckerberg once said "the best developers are hackers". Point is most of these billionaires (including him) got rich off the foundation of others. The genius however is taking that foundation and building the best house. At the end of the day everything under the sun has already been done

Shut yo analogy lookin[..] up.

This nicca left right before the !! was about to hit the fan. [pic]

^^^ too broke to afford an iPhone.

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apple is like the CIA lmao you never hear anything about their employees.

You only see 3 or 4 of them during the keynotes


none of them have twitter accounts,facebook accounts,linkedin

!! zuck

I am 1000% sure I make more money than you jacka**. People in the hood have Iphones. Iphones are on prepaid now. Stop trolling.

lol you can get an iphone 3gs for a penny b. . .

the 4 is like 99 bucks

and the 4s is 199


basically the same tiers as android phones