This whole set of court cases with Samsung and Apple just shows how
stupid and idiotic the US patent system has become. Most of what was be fought over in court should NEVER have been accepted as a patent. However, now that the courts have joined in, what we will see is a very heavy handed stifling of innovation by the big proprietary players like Apple and Microsoft as they do all in their power to stifle all opposition on any BS patent claim they can push into court.