Samsung loses U.S. trial, owes Apple more than $1 billion in damages

Thank God, Apple does not assemble cars by taking an engine from here and tyres from there and so on. Otherwise, at least in the US, car companies would be required to use, may be, triangular wheels, irregularly shaped seats and steam engines!

only way to combat this is just boycott all apple products that's all

I'll boycott the purchase of a crApple device

@ Guest
"When you make a false claim that GUI was copied from xerox or stolen you have to have the authors or inventors name? Who was the author of GUI? Don't seem to have that fact ha? For if you have that fact we would all realize that Jobs was on that team? So if I invent something while working at a company for peanuts is it me steeling from them when I quit and take what I invented with me? So you can keep your bs propaganda for your self."

Are you telling me Jobs was on the team that invented the GUI? What are you smoking? First the GUI was invented by a team at Stanford Research Institute, led by Douglas Engelbart. Then a more advanced version that uses graphics was developed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay. Get your facts correct and don't start saying Jobs invented the GUI. What else does job invent? The telephone?

In terms of inventing something while working at a company and then quitting, that's a bit more complicated. If you invented it at the company but have the patent under your name, then you can do whatever you want with even if you quit. A lot of times however it's not under your name so even if you quit, you don't really have the full freedom of using what you invented.

@ danhodge
It's true that they made "****" things better. However they did not INVENT those things. They just improve upon it. Just think about the slide to unlock feature. There are several companies that have made and used that in their products but APPLE is the one that say they invented the slice-to-unlock, patent it successfully, and then used it to sue other companies. Wonderful isn't it?

Could you imagine what the car industry would be like if they openly sued each other as often as tech companies do? There would be 10 new lawsuits every year.

And you know what? Both of these companies have dirt on their hands but without going into detail, this lawsuit and the settlement were ridiculous and I think this will only make the tech world that much more complicated.

Yes, it is (not necessarily fair, but true!).

What, do you think Apple just one day released the iphone? no, they started out copying others with minor improvements and built on that. Innovation usually is only recognized after a big release, but its actually a much longer, less glorious process.

Let's face it, Samsung did copy the Apple iPhone. Though it is also obvious that U.S. patent law needs to be overhauled. We need to restore the proper balance to give all involved a fair way to interact.

Let's face it, Samsung didn't copy the Apple iPhone. That's my, equally valid, opinion, although it'll probably get taken down again by the pro-Apple police.

"It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners"

US freedom.... someone should have patent "copy & paste" before

Apple sucks.that's for sure.

I think Apple has a patent for copy and paste on mobile devices actually (totally serious).

The real apple is the Beatles recording company.