Apple v Samsung Galaxy Nexus: A Programmer Reads the Patents.

On June 29, 2012 Apple secured an import ban in the United States on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android tablet. It made use of four key and wide reaching patents that it claimed Samsung had infringed. It is quite clear that Samsung has infringed each one to a greater or lesser degree. What is more, so has every other Android tablet and phone manufacturer. So is Apple about to close down Android? We read the patents to find out what powerful intellectual property Apple is wielding in its legal attempt to stay the number one.