Ok Samsung's clock icon looks exactly like iPhone's clock icon. If they can't even think of a different clock style, they are copying.

I'm surprised Samsung found a lawyer who could say that with a straight face. Botox probably.

Samsung has point here. There is no Apple logo or similar logo on their devices. Their phone doesn't claim to be an "iPhone" and is missing the word "iPhone".

When Samsung went "back to the drawing board" after the iPad 2 was released and magically came out with the 10.1 Tab, which was little more than an iClone, I think there was a case to be made.

But as both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs said in the early 80's, "good artists copy, great artists steal." Jobs is a visionary though, and that leaves all the other companies to copy.

This website has become a he said she said.http://forums.appleinsider.com/images/smilies/lol.gif

The copying here is REALLY blatant, and repeated, and ongoing. Check out their iBooks clone app on YouTube, too. Right down to the shelves and the specific kind of page-turn effect.

You can't say "every clock icon looks like that" or "every smartphone" looks like that or "every tablet cover looks like that," because it's not true. All clocks are similar, and all phones are similar... but they need not be THAT similar. And coincidences happen too... but not THAT many coincidences.

I can see why Apple needs to send a message to all companies that, if nothing else, they'll create trouble for those who copy too blatantly. AND that being a component supplier doesn't grant you immunity for your choices.

I think the problem is that Samsung actually thinks that copying IS competition.

I'd love to know what the conversation is like between Samsung and their outside council. Are outside council telling Samsung that they're in trouble here? Do Samsung just not believe them? It seems there's just a fundamental failure to grok that there's a difference between copying a feature such as 'has a touch screen' and between counterfeiting a UI.