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But they said the design was copied. Also, non-trivial parts of the design are in the exact same positions in both examples -- it seems to me like the question isn't even if the design was copied, but more of whether we should care.


And on top of that, the exact same capitalization and abbreviations are used. At least they took the effort to rename "last year" to "last 4 quarters" in one occasion..


"we definitely took CBInsights as reference" is the phrase

Now, it would be one thing to, for example, get the html/css and copy it, that would be illegal

But to merely use as a reference?

"Also, non-trivial parts of the design are in the exact same positions in both examples"

Such as? There's also a low amount of flexibility in most cases.

"but more of whether we should care."

Yes, we shouldn't worry too much ;)




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