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"Consider how Samsung copied Apple and eventually lost and had to pay huge fine"
Because the USPTO is broken and Apple is USA.
Samsung didn't in reality copy Apple. The Apple Design Patents (= UK Registered Designs) should never ever been approved. Rounded corners, smart phones, touch, tile interface icons all pre-date the iPhone. Most Apple styles (the white minimalist stuff by Ives) is actually a rip off of stuff Rams designed for Braun. Samsung didn't lose on any technological grounds, because Apple iPhone 1 used a Samsung CPU (ARM licenced) and everything apart from the case and iOS was bought in. Even the GUI on iOS was bought (Fingerworks). It was much later that Apple bought an ARM licensed CPU design house.
A foreign company can't win against a USA company and USPTO approvals. The USPTO doesn't even consider prior art properly. They get more income from approvals than rejections. Their attitude is why waste money on due diligence? The USA system is to challenge in court.
USA doesn't take care of consumers. They are only concerned about a level playing field between big USA corporations, who spend millions lobbying. Facebook, Google and Apple all opposed the new Californian data privacy laws.
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