Now that Samsung phones do not look like cheap iPhone knock-offs anymore and the first lawsuit reached its resolution at the district level, an amicable settlement can easily be reached through a lump sum payment, a royalty stream and a no-cloning agreement. Samsung management could argue copying was necessary and beneficial in a business sense during its early efforts before its designs reached maturity, (as in totally worth the price) and Apple could get its vindication and claim that its aggressive efforts forced the competition to abandon blatant clones. Win win. Of course, I am not the executive who needs to sign off on a check worth billions of dollars.