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some of the most popular features on current smartphones like slide to unlock and Siri have landed to tech giants in court for a second time and the jury's verdict could impact how your phone functions in a second patent infringement trial Apple and Samsung are accusing each other of copying features used in their popular smartphones and tablets including the iphone 5 and ipad mini as well as Samsung's Galaxy s3 and Galaxy Note on the Samsung side they have accused Apple of copying patent that they have related to like video calls so that would apply to something like FaceTime both companies are asking for damages Apple wants about 2 billion dollars from Samsung and Samsung wants about 7 million dollars in royalties I don't think it was ever really about the money I think it's this battle to dominate the mobile industry or consumers the verdicts could force changes to your phone it's really the mobile operating systems you know kind of battling here one thing that we could see would be Google changing some of the Android features if these are found to infringe and that could make its way through you know all of the Android devices on the market while the witness list includes executives from Apple and Samsung it may also include Google programmers and engineers a lot of the patents and a lot of the features are Android features they're not things that Samsung has it's almost more Apple versus Google the previous trial in 2012 favorite apple samsung was ordered to pay apple nearly 1 billion dollars in damages for infringing on patents in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News