Apple-Samsung Copy Case Hinges on Cheech, Chong Test
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Apple Inc.’s claim that Samsung Electronics Co. copied the design of the iPhone may hinge on what a U.S. trade judge today described as the “Cheech and Chong test.”
“Does it look like it, feel like it, smell like it?” U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Thomas Pender said at the beginning of Apple’s patent-infringement trial against Samsung, referring to a routine in which the comedy duo identified dog feces.