Bangalore: Within a year Apple has sued Samsung all around the world. In US, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom and more than two-dozen other countries. The claim Apple has made everywhere is the same: Samsung has stolen the look and feel of its iPhone and iPad.

These claims according to ZDNet are not concrete. A UK judge ordered Apple to tell the world on both its UK website and in British newspapers that Samsung had not copied the iPad's design.

All smartphones and tablets tend to look like each other because they all do the same things. They're all meant to fit in a human hand, and the phones are meant to place the receiver at your ear and the transmitter at your mouth. None of Apple's design patents should have been granted in the first place.

Going back in time, Steve Jobs took Xerox PARC's Windows, Icons, Menu and Pointer (WIMP) ideas and used them to create the Mac interface. Near the end of his life, Jobs even said, “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong...I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this”.