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Hell, the first Samsung Galaxy S not pictured has a gigantic stamp of SAMSUNG at the very top.

Apple is not suing Samsung on the appearance of any of the phones you so nicely cut and pasted in your comment... they are suing Samsung for the one I cut and paste in my original comment, the Galaxy SII, and others... as well as the Galaxy Tablet line. Here is another view of the Galaxy SII:

And whether the Galaxy S has Samsung emblazoned on it or not is irrelevant in a Tradedress lawsuit. Here is photo of the Galaxy S, right next to the iPhone 3Gs it was copied from:

And the VP of Samsung, in an oft quoted comment, which is being used against them in court, said, after seeing the iPad 2, "we are going to have to redesign" the Galaxy Tab 10... and they DID, recalling their already shipped to distribution heavier and thicker model, to make their's match the iPad 2's look... here's a side by side photo of the two:

So your, non sequitur photos of non-copied Samsung phones are irrelevant to the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit in Federal Court. These are... and are being litigated.

Apple is not suing Samsung on the appearance of any of the phones you so nicely cut and pasted in your comment

Do some research before you post, Apple amended their complaint to include those phones.

The amended complaint accuses all of the above plus the Droid Charge, Exhibit 4G, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S (i9000), Gravity, Infuse 4G, Nexus S 4G, Replenish, Sidekick, Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Galaxy S II (aka Galaxy S 2). It also specifies the accusation against "Showcase" products, naming the Showcase i500 and Showcase Galaxy S.

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/06/apple-amends-complaint-against-samsung.html

Apple is basing their trade dress complaints on the following:

U.S. Application Serial No. 77/921,838 for the configuration of a digital electronic device with a screen on the front of the device, and a circle at the bottom center of the front [the iPad]

Fairly certain the Blackberry had a pushable round button on the front below the screen before Apple entered the market with the iPhone.

U.S. Application Serial No. 77/921,829 for a configuration of a digital electronic device, with a gray screen, a black border around the screen, a black concave circle at the bottom of the border, and silver sides [also the iPad] Because Apple was the first to use a black border around a screen? And silver sides, really? As far as gray screen, you seen an old early 2000's phone turned off?

U.S. Application Serial No. 77/921,869 for the overall design of the product, including a black screen and silver casing, with thirteen colorful square icons arranged in four rows on the face of the screen, and a concave black circle with the outline of a gray square in the center below the bottom row of icons [again, the iPad] Apple doesn't have the monopoly on square icons, furthermore if Apple gets a ruling in favor of this, I imagine they'll be back in court to deal with HP's lawyers.

U.S. Application Serial No. 85/299,118 for the configuration of a rectangular handheld mobile digital electronic device with evenly rounded corners [the iPhone 4] This is the most absurd of them.