However, just saying the hardware is easily copied isn't proof of copying it, which is why McElhinny returned to evidence introduced in pre-trial, depicting Samsung's phones before 2007 and their phones after the iPhone's debut.
A group of experts will have to answer these questions and regularly return to the evidence.
Rather than simply dismissing those he critiques, he has called time and again for a return to the evidence and to the first principles of scientific inquiry.
Tory MP Rob Wilson described it as an "absolutely shocking report" and said it posed further questions for former director general Mark Thompson, who has already faced calls to return to give evidence to parliament over the Digital Media Initiative fiasco.
In a few minutes, the Commons select committee on culture, media and sport will return to take evidence from Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, the British newspaper division of News Corporation, who was also the editor of The News of the World in 2002 when the voice mail of a missing 13-year-old girl was reportedly hacked.
Some clinical researchers are now calling for a return to real evidence-based medicine in order that a highly individualised system of healthcare can be delivered to fulfil the long-awaited promise of personalised medicine.
Since their forced return to the UK, evidence that the government was closely involved in the detention operation in Somaliland has seeped steadily into the public domain.
After a disappointing World Cup and a sense that injury and weariness had taken its toll, Messi's 2014-15 season was both a genuine, through-the-roof return to form, and evidence of his ability to adapt to a slightly different but equally devastating role as a mature creative footballer in a team overloaded at its front end with attacking talent.
Earlier this week the committee confirmed that Nix has accepted its summons to return to give further evidence — saying the public session will likely to take place on April 17.
Mosley, who returned to give evidence on Wednesday to outline his thoughts on what sort of regulator should replace the Press Complaints Commission, said he had a "great deal of sympathy" with newspapers which resisted outside interference.
