Charles Babcock:
What a patent and legal system should aim to prevent is theft by copying, such as stealing the technology of a competitor’s product, or creating such a conscious, copycat duplication that one product can be confused with another, thus letting the profits of an originator be taken by an imitator. Samsung did not do this.
Did Charles not see the same trial the rest of us saw? That is exactly what Samsung did. Documents from Samsung’s own executives proved that’s what they did and the jury said that’s what Samsung did.