I wonder why people think they have all these obvious super slam dunk arguments that Samsung's large, professional and highly paid legal staff somehow never thought of.

I wonder if people know that the light bulb was invented over 120 years ago and yet there are still being patents issued on light bulbs.

Don't read it as a comment on Samsung's legal team. Read it as a comment on a patent system which can't (or just didn't) accept it as prior art.

We get it, people are unhappy with the decision. Is it necessary to clutter HN with stuff like this that offers no useful insight other than an attention grabbing news title?

Actually I think the submitter blew it, they should have submitted the link on that page: http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html which does a good job of showing why at least some of the patents Apple asserted in this case should not be upheld.

Thanks, that page has a lot of very interesting history, including a picture of an early cell phone with a touch-screen based keyboard that was manufactured by IBM and Bell South in 1992.