http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/apple-v-samsung-explained/
[They are partners and adversaries at the same time. Big time patent wars are on.]
"Did Apple rip off Samsung’s intellectual property to create the iPhone, or did Samsung pilfer Apple’s patents when it took on the iPad and iPhone with a slew of mobile devices and tablets?
Those are the burning questions at issue in the biggest trial so far in the ongoing worldwide mobile-phone patent war that’s broken out between Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, HTC, Motorola and others.
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