The others are a matter of form following function. Apple don't have a trademark on USB or mains plugs. Apple don't have a trademark on white, rectangular boxes. Apple don't have a trademark on putting the damn product in the damn box (seriously? This is considered copying?) Apple don't have a trademark on showing a picture of a microphone when in a voice recording app.
There is a considerable amount of thought that goes into how a product is packaged an unpackaged. It is extraordinarily disingenuous to claim that all that is being copied here is "putting the damn product in the damn box." I can think of approximately 20-30 ways that a tablet can be packaged (and surely you've opened just as many products in your life time), and a five-sided cover revealing just the product is only one of them.
It's a common theme emerging on HN that these trademark disputes constitute "obvious" design choices. It bears mentioning that it is possible to verify the solution of an NP problem in P time. That doesn't make the solution obvious.
Number 1: Sir, we just received word, Apple put their product in the box FACE UP!
CEO: CRAP! Back to the drawing board. Note all staff, "product face up" has been done. It's tired, it's old. Yesterday's news.... now we have to try something totally different.
(sorry for the trolling, couldn't resist the sarcastic approach. Yes it does look like Samsung totally did a workalike on this one.)
A quick Google Images search displays quite a few ways it is actually being done.
No they're not. There are a billion possible shapes for a USB power adapter for instance, getting within 1% of an exact match is not a coincidence.
Correct it's a design patent not a trademark: