"But he stuck his tongue out at me."
Not exactly. The iPhone design was patented in 2007. The Samsung copies, with evidence in the form of a 125 page internal memo from Samsung's top management on how Samsung's design department needed to change each feature of their current phones to match the Apple's iPhone, came out in 2009-2010. That's smoking gun evidence of intentional patent infringement.
Samsung went so far as to use Apple's icons in their stores! They duplicated the look of the Apple BOXES their Samsung products came in, attempting to make their products look like Apple's. Samsung copied the power cords, and power bricks, changing only the color. Cult of Mac used a tongue-in-cheek approach when Samsung claimed they never copied anything from Apple and presented the following photo array:
