It's all BS.
Nothing is revolutionary and independently creative. Every designer knows that designs are evolutionary as an additive process.
Can you imagine if someone had patented the "power on/off" button?
In the trial, Apple had the temerity to argue that a phone icon shouldn't look like a phone icon and that a notepad icon shouldn't look like a notepad icon. And for goodness sake, the jury bought that??? America has lost all common sense.