Sorry Swordmaker.
All of Free Republic does not agree with your personal assertion that a trademark system so out of control that it awards ownership of rectangles with rounded corners to iPple equates to conservatism.
Your problem here is that too many Freepers actually followed this and read the damned suit.
Maybe if iPple wanted a monopoly they should have tried making a better product at a better price than their competitors. Instead of patent trolling.
Go ahead, spout the propaganda repeating what Samsung spread on the PREVIOUS trial they lost to the tune of $930 million. Rectangles with rounded corners was NOT patented, contrary to the propaganda. That was part of the technical specification language, required by law, which must is a narrative that describing the design patent on the first iPhone and iPad in specifically constrained terms. Samsung's OWN design patents include the same phrase of rounded corners and rectangle, as part of each of their product descriptions. You fell for their reductio ad absurdum logical fallacy argument. . . exactly as they cynically intended.
Go ahead and ignore that Apple rightfully sued Samsung for EXACTLY duplicating the Trade Dress of the original Apple products down to the look of the chargers, changing only the color, the packing box their Galaxy Products came in, the connectors, etc. Samsung's own attorney, when pressed in the first trial, could not distinguish which phone was Apple's and which was Samsung's at a distance of just six feet, complaining, "I can't see the Samsung logo." Literally, the logo WAS the only distinguishing feature difference. The first trial revealed an internal Samsung document outlining every distinguishing iPhone feature. . . and ordering that it be included in their new Galaxy S1 — 132 pages of features that had to be exactly copied. Smoking gun, MrEdd. The document even detailed WHY the iPhone feature was desirable or needed. Lots of smoke and fire. Face it, Samsung is losing in every court in every Nation. They even lost in South Korea.
You are suffering from Apple Derangement Syndrome.
Exactly.