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Apple vs Samsung Dueling before and after stories

FORTUNE -- The image above, taken from the pretrial brief Apple (AAPL) filed on Tuesday, represents the story the company wants the jury to hear: That Samsungs idea of what a mobile phone should look like underwent a sudden and permanent transformation in January 2007, when Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone.

The image below, from Samsungs brief, tells a very different story. It shows 10 different touchscreen phones under internal development in the summer of 2006, one of which -- the F700 -- was, according to Samsung, the subject of a Korean design registration application in Dec. 2006, a month before the iPhones debut.
We cant know ahead of time which story the jury will find most persuasive. But billions dollars -- and Samsungs right to sell Android devices in the U.S. market -- could be at stake.


From: money.cnn