The patent system stopped being relevant decades ago ,, ESPECIALLY “design” patents ... come on now ,, patenting a rectangle with rounded corners?? What’s next?
Now protecting real innovations ... that’s worth fighting for.
Design Patrnts aren’t worth protecting, huh?
For decades, there were hundreds of different phone designs. Apple makes the iPhone 4/5/6 and suddenly no one can make anything other than a rectangle. Let’s carry that further. Then anyone can make a Corvette clone too, or a Mustang. How about those Golden Arches? Nope. Design Patents are valid just as tech patents.
Look at how Apple took the humble watch bands and changed the very design on how they attach as well as how they function. All valid patents and all worth protecting. The watch layout, function and design again, all unique, valid design patents and worth protecting.
Why is it that you are defending a Korean company’s “right” to steal American ideas, designs and work? It is not like Samsung is a struggling underdog. You are aware that Sumsung makes industrial sized Cargo ships, commercial construction equipment, has a military division as well as consumer appliances well removed from the phones, tablets and watches. I mean it’s not like that they cannot afford their own R&D. Just that stealing other people’s work has a far greater return on investment.
Especially when they have “Americsns” applauding every theft.