Read More Apple's war on Samsung has Google in crossfire Mr Quinn argued that this was evidence that Samsung's brand and device features were helping it to compete with the iPhone in the US market, rather than merely relying on stolen technology, as Apple alleges. In its opening arguments, Apple copied its own legal tactics from the patent case that saw it win almost $1bn in damages in 2012. Apple claims that Samsung has sold 37m smartphones and tablets that copy its designs and that it is due more than $2bn in damages. In turn, Samsung accuses several iPhone and iPad models of infringing two of its patents. Just as in the 2012 case, counsel for Apple began by accusing its Korean rival of "massive" intellectual property infringement, and positioning its flagship smartphone as a device that reshaped an industry with a range of innovations.