Samsung saw yet another procedural setback today at the opening of its trial against Apple in US District Court in San Francisco. An attempt by Samsung to frame an early iPhone prototype labeled "Jony" by Apple designers as copied from Sony -- thereby implying that stealing designs is okay if others do it also -- has been quashed. Samsung will not be permitted to present exhibits to the jury that allege Apple was inspired by Sony. Apple produced design documents from an earlier prototype also resembling the iPhone 4 design but without the Sony influence, demonstrating to the judge that the iPh
