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It's fine. The phones and tablets that Samsung are selling now are unaffected and, even if they can't appeal, this is more like a big one time charge.

It would have been more dangerous if Samsung's patents were able to be asserted, because they submitted them to a standards process under FRAND terms. See Rambus vs ever DRAM memory company for how that turns out.