Galaxy Tab does not copy Apple styles, U.K. court rules

Galaxy Tab does not copy Apple styles, U.K. court rules

Score one for Samsung Electronics.

After many legal defeats leading to a product ban, Samsung finally got a court to facet with it. the corporate said that the High Court of England and Wales dominated that its Galaxy Tab failed to infringe upon Apple's pill styles, and located fifty totally different recognizable traits.

The victory could be a live of relief once some rough weeks within which a U.S. choose ordered a ban on the Galaxy Nexus, leading to Google pulling it from the Google Play store before putting it keep a copy Saturday. Samsung has filed an attractiveness and also the ban has briefly lifted.

The moves are a part of a broader legal skirmish between the 2 largest smartphone manufacturers within the world, and a part of Apple's legal campaign against Android and any company supporting the operating system. Apple and Samsung have lawsuits filed in several courts round the world, and are probing for a ban or call therefore devastating that each corporations are forced to sit down down and calculate a resolution. So far, either side have solely seen minor victories.

Apple declined to inquire into the ruling, however reiterated its claims concerning the similarities between its merchandise and Samsung's lineup.

"This reasonably blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said over and over before, we'd like to safeguard Apple's intellectual property when corporations steal our concepts," said an Apple representative.

Today's ruling affects 3 versions of the Samsung tablet: the Galaxy Tab ten.1, Galaxy Tab eight.9, and Galaxy Tab seven.7. variations the court cited were the thickness of the devices, front and rear surface styles, and lack of physical buttons.

Samsung said it had requested this voluntary trial to induce prior Apple's claims that Samsung's tablets copy the iPad and its style. Samsung said it welcomed today's ruling.