The second patent trial between Apple and Samsung resumed on Friday in a North California court headed by Judge Lucy Koh. A top Android executive testified on Friday that Google didn’t copy from Apple.
The statement was made by Google’s Android engineering VP, Hiroshi Lockheimer, who added “We like to have our own identity”. He testified that he first saw a demo of Android in January 2006 where he was impressed by the OS and took the decision to join Google in April, the same year, in order to work on the project. That’s is a year before the first iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs and at the time he joined, the team behind the Android project had around 20 to 30 people working on the project.
“Very intentionally, we kept the team very small,” Lockheimer said.
Speaking of the early development phases of Android in 2006 and 2007, Lockheimer said the team worked really hard and for long exhausting hours.
Lockheimer was the first witness of the Samsung-Apple trial in which the company is defending itself that it didn’t infringe any of the five Apple patents and that they are invalid. The case continued on Friday with Chris Vellturo detailing why Samsung should be charged $2 billion for infringing on five patents of Apple.
Source: re/code
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