Apple and Samsung in the Supreme Court

From The New York Times, an article by Adam Liptak:

On Tuesday (because their sessions always start on the first Monday in October), the Supreme Court will consider a clash between two technology giants, hearing arguments on whether Samsung, the South Korean electronics company, must pay Apple some four hundred million dollars for copying part of the design of the iPhone. A jury found that Samsung had violated an Apple design patent by mimicking the iPhone’s round corners and grid of icons. The question for the justices is whether that means Samsung must turn over all its profits from the infringing phones, or just those attributable to the disputed features. The court has not heard a design patent case in over a century.

Rico says that Samsung is on the ropes with their burning phones, but this might knock 'em out...