And they needed the help of the president to get that done. I feel for Samsung. Quite an injustice. Well, there were two separate cases in the US. Samsung won the USITC case, but Obama reversed that ruling that would have banned Apple iPhones in the US. Apple won the highly publicized district case, but the appeals court reversed "trade dress" part of the win. The design part of the victory is now going to be heard by the SCOTUS. [doublepost=1458598351][/doublepost] This was an unexpected development. I figured the Supreme Court had something better to do than this. why unexpected? The SCOTUS hears patents cases all the time or at least they hear more patent cases every year. [doublepost=1458598462][/doublepost] This is ridiculous. You'd think Samsung would stop copying though if they didn't want to pay out but looking at their most recent offerings, they keep on with their blatant plagiarism, albeit in a cheap way.