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> It may make Samsung differentiate further but at the same time they have to create unintuitive gestures to avoid Apple patents

No they do not. They can still use the same gestures and implement it differently.

> The patent process has effectively made it impossible to create a mobile phone without breaking patents.

You have put the blame of the patent process on Apple which is very unfair was all my point.

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How so? I didn't even mention the word "Apple" in my post. I just purchased a Macbook Air, I like Apple. This has nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with a broken patent process.

Watty, It's not whether I like Apple or Samsung. I myself feel that the patent process is broken. My only point was not to single out Apple and leave the others. In this case, there was enough evidence that Samsung "willfully" copied from Apple. For example, a 132 page document was a very hard evidence including emails from the company. You do not require patents to prove it. Patents were used to calculate the financial losses. If otherwise, there would have been a long list of patents which the judges may have seen Samsung to infringed. However, that's not the case.