Wait, they burned through all of those questions in 3 days? Seriously? I quickly glanced at the instructions and the question sheet and I think it would take 3 days just to understand them, never mind render a decision. Some of the Samsung patents claims probably could have been upheld too, from my extremely quick look at it. Would probably take a week+ to hack away at all of this.
The thing that concerns me is that many of the design principles that seem to be at issue here (tap to zoom, scrolling, layouts, etc.) are considered design standards, and are being taught as such. The user is so used to them that giving different methods of interaction usually makes the product worse. Are they expecting designers/developers to come up with different, often inferior, interaction modes for every single product we create, for fear of patent infringement? Hard to say if this will encourage innovation, or kill it.
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