Shin Nishibori's iPhone design e-mails were a big part of the patent trial early on.
Shin Nishibori ended up at the center of the patent trial early on for creating a series of Sony-inspired designs for the iPhone back in 2006. Samsung wanted to call Nishibori to testify in the trial, but he revealed that he had just stepped down from the design team due to health issues. Nishibori's
LinkedIn page shows that the designer worked at Apple for a decade until he left last month.