Not long after a jury in the Califor-nian city of San Jose concluded on August 24th that Samsung should pay Apple just over $1 billion in damages for infringing six of the American firm's software and design patents, stills from a year-old sitcom episode, in which a character demonstrates an absurd triangular tablet computer, began recirculating on the internet. The images were being used to poke fun at the jury's ruling that the South Korean firm had copied the shape of Apple's wildly popular iPhone, which (like most) is rect-anpnlar with curved rnrners.
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