[Svartalfiar]

Good thieves feel regret when busted and bad thieves blame others when busted. Let’s see how Samsung responds in court. It is clear that Samsung stole from Apple.

Meh. I don't see how this should even fall under patent law. It's a design/shape/where the button is. Anyone can do that. Patents are supposed to protect the design, the HOW of how something works. If anything, Apple should have trademarked their designs, not patented them. And their software would be copyrighted.

[Swordmaker]

Meh. I don't see how this should even fall under patent law. It's a design/shape/where the button is. Anyone can do that. Patents are supposed to protect the design, the HOW of how something works. If anything, Apple should have trademarked their designs, not patented them. And their software would be copyrighted.

That's why some of the issues in question are DESIGN Patents and not UTILITY Patents. They are different and protect different things. . . and the placement of buttons etc, are not part of design patents and, by definition, cannot be part of Design Patents. Look up the differences between the two types of patents. For example, the shape and look of the bottle for Coca Cola is protected by a Design Patent because it is merely ornamental, but a bottle that holds Coke would be protected by a Utility Patent because it has a real function.

Some of the issues in suit are utility patents because they have real functions that had not been done in that way on such a device before, and Apple had found a way to do it.