Five years ago this week… One of the most epic patent battles in history came to a close, as Samsung agreed to pay Apple more than $548 million in damages for design and utility patent infringements. These referred to the orientation and graphical UI used on the iPhone five years earlier, in 2011, which was ruled to have been copied on Samsung devices such as the Galaxy S, S2 and Ace. The initial sum owed by Samsung was set at $1.05 billion, so the company did well to shave off half a billion dollars, but Faultline felt the hometown verdict had still unfairly swung in favor of Apple. — In a week that has been all about AT&T, the…