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hi everyone I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com I'm here with Josh Lowen sin' staff writer also at C net and Josh we are talking Apple versus Samsung the trial is about to start give us the trial in a nutshell what are we talking about here so this is really Apple and Samsung fighting for market supremacy Apple is basically saying Samsung you ripped off our stuff and Samsung is saying well you couldn't have had the iPhone in the iPad without our technology so these two are really going head-to-head to Duke it out in court this comes down to patents that's what we're talking about yeah a lot of it's just about the technology Samsung is arguing it they really created some of the wireless technology that goes into Apple's products and Apple is saying well you know your products couldn't really looked like they do or been able to be used like they do without our technology and some examples of that might be the pinch-to-zoom for example that you see on iPhones and iPads they're claiming that Samsung ripped off some of that those design details right and that really all comes back to Google's Android operating system which is what these products were on Apple went over after HTC they went after Motorola they're going after other companies besides Samsung but it's really kind of the biggest face to face in terms of the phones they're attacking what is potential consequence of this trial I mean say say Apple wins what happens to all of those Samsung products and we're talking dozens of Samsung products that supposedly use this technology right so in the case of this matter it's really all about getting Samsung's stuff off the shelves Apple wants to keep it from being on sale and they also kind of want to make Samsung change their products to be more friendly and not infringe on their patents at the same token Samsung wants to keep Apple stuff off the shelves too or at least get some sort of royalty payment what's probably gonna happen so that they're gonna shake hands and make a side deal and settle and just City you can use our pens we can use yours everybody gets a little bit of money right because at some point I know some patent experts have said it's really hard to stake your claim on this technology that is really just the evolution of where the technology has been I mean is there any ownership to that it is but it's also a really deep rabbit hole to go into I mean when you start talking about things like interface elements you go back to these kind of computing concepts of the 70s and so it can really kind of stretch out so we don't really know if that's gonna happen with this trial yet but there's a lot of potential so right now impact a consumer is not a whole lot I mean if you own your current Samsung phone you're gonna be fine with it but as far as that next model you may not see it on store shelves yeah that's that's kind of what makes this case interesting is we don't really know what's gonna come out of it in terms of change you know if Apple really gets in a position where they can make Samsung changes products that would be a big win for them but it also would changed the course of devices to come a lot riding on this run and it'll be interesting to follow over the next couple of months Thank You Josh yeah Josh lonesome staff writer for cnet.com I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching