A terrible week for consumer electronics firm Samsung got significantly worse on Tuesday as the US supreme court expressed limited patience for arguments defending patent infringements against Apple’s iPhone. Galaxy Note 7: what to do with Samsung's potentially exploding phone Read moreSamsung concedes the findings of the lower court that it copied the iPhone’s curvaceous case design and colourful graphical user interface for earlier models. “A smartphone is smart because it contains hundreds of thousands of technologies that make it work,” Samsung’s lawyer Kathleen Sullivan told the court. “We know from Samsung’s own documents they realised they faced a crisis of design,” said Fletcher. In a statement, Apple said: “We firmly believe that strong design patent protection spurs creativity and innovation, ... And that’s why we’ve defended ourselves against those who steal our ideas.

Source: The Guardian October 11, 2016 18:33 UTC