I really don't get why a company analyzing a competitor's product and saying we need something like that is so damning. Look at other industries. When the Mustang came out, both GM & Mopar rushed to get something similar out to compete for customers, and Ford would've had a better case with them than Apple had with Samsung. All of the "pony cars" were a long hood short trunk design, all handled & performed relatively similar, and all were going after the same demographic. Next look at the soft drink industry recently. I don't know who came out with it first, but there could easily be a similar case with the Coke Zero/Pepsi Max products. That's just two industries, there's HDTV, home & kitchen appliances, etc., etc.
The only difference between those industries and the mobile sphere is Apple. Any other industry if your competition comes out with something similar or better, you knuckle down and come up with a way to beat them. But in the mobile industry why devote millions to r&d when you can use it for litigation. If the competition has no products to offer, yours will sell no matter how innovative it is or isn't. I'm not saying that Samsung didn't take it too far with the Galaxy S, but the others listed in the trial were ridiculous. And now the Nexus, Note, & S3? Give me a break. You'd have to be a total moron to confuse them with an iphone.
As far as the patents listed, they are overly broad. There's a difference with how certain functions can happen on a touchscreen, and how they can happen on a smartphone with a physical keyboard. I heard someone commenting on this that even though an S3 can swipe in any direction to unlock (as opposed to Apple's slide to the side) it still violates Apple's patent because your swiping to unlock the phone, regardless of direction. In that case, they are patenting an action, which cannot be patented. Some of these patents need to be made a standard, just like with what happened with Samsung's & Motorola's patents that are now FRAND. Otherwise the mobile industry is either going to end up being a total mess, or we'll be left with a monopoly/duopoly. Apple took this to federal court to get their pound of flesh, that to me would mean that the government agencies that are tasked with overseeing this industry has the right to regulate it. I don't care if iOS or android is ahead, but I do care about having choices when I go to put out hundreds of dollars for a device. Apple is apparently against this otherwise they would go Microsoft's route and get a licensing fee. But because their first action is to try to ban anything that may infringe, that tells me they want as little competition so they can "innovate" at their own pace.
And finally as far as licensing for patents, I believe there should be a set of standards in place, networking gets amount A, core OS gets B, GUI gets C, and so on. This mentality of your network patent is only worth $1, but our UI patents are worth $30 is ridiculous. Those UI patents will look really nice, but if it can't make calls or transmit data, then it's nothing more than a media/game player.