Apple supporters - Please understand that this is a clear abuse of patents by Apple more than anything else. Why? Because, the phones they are suing right now (Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note) are phones that have been designed to NOT look like the iPhone (as Apple had alleged earlier) nor use any of their technologies. This is clearly to stiffle innovation and competition by unethical means, by abusing the patent system. What's disheartening is that Samsung actually spent considerable effort to make these phones look different (Heck, one of them even has a stylus, something Steve Jobs himself was against) and yet they still find Apple suing them.

What are the patents that Apple is using to sue Samsung against?

The four new patents Apple is leveraging against Samsung include the '647 "Data Detectors" patent, the '721 "Slide-to-unlock" property, the '172 "Word completion" invention and the '604 "Universal search" patent.

All of them Bullshit.

Understand this, my fellow HN'ers, make no mistake, this is a threat for the entire Start-up community. Tomorrow you might be sued for the same BS reasons if you started a phone company as well (Sorry for repeating this, but I feel it's important). This is one of the primary reasons why we don't see hardware-based start-ups - Because of the fear of being sued by monopolies like Apple. If you would like to show your support, please consider boycotting Apple. There is strength in numbers. Please show your support.

And my only message to Apple is - Fuck you, Apple. Its only a matter of time until you will collapse for all the unfair BS you have done to us, as a community.

Thanks for reading.