Apple just lost a Patent case in China. Did they steal the 6 design?
Trolls and thieves, let them have at it.
NO.
In China, patent infringement cases can be brought what in what are the equivalent of MUNICIPAL COURTS. That is what happened in a court in Beijing.
I posted that case on FreeRepublic and also posted the fact that the judge in the case also ruled that Apple could continue selling the iPhone 6 and 6 plus because, in his opinion, his "design patent infringement" ruling on behalf of the plaintiff would be quickly overruled by a higher regional court, which is what usually happens as 100+'s phone looks like lots of other phones on the market and they likely got a look at Apple's upcoming iPhone which was already in manufacturing production at FoxConn and Pegatron down the street from their storefront when the quickly brought their look-alike out and quickly applied for a Chinese design patent.
You really have no clue about technology.
The courts are setup (not a conspiracy but how it works) that in a patent dispute, the court favors the smaller company.
Outside of the USA, the court favors the home country.
Employees within USA premium technical companies are constantly trained to AVOID contaminating internal designs with any external IP in ANY form.
One Engineer can cost a company Billions by trying to sneak something in.
Outside the USA with China/South Korea court protections, such business restrictions don’t exist.
Intel Oregon monitors the parking lots as they have often found non-employees stalking employees looking for computers in trunks and open internet connections.