Apple Injunction Blocks Samsung Galaxy Tablet Sales in Europe

Apple Injunction Blocks Samsung Galaxy Tablet In Europe — Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Tens of thousands of Samsung's flagship Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets reportedly have been seized across Europe, A the legal engagement betwixt Apple and Samsung turns ugly.

Apple addicted it has been granted an injunction in a German motor inn that much prevents the sale of Samsung's tablet across the European Union, except Netherlands.

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Samsung said it was unaware of Apple filing for the injunction, patc the German court successful its order to ba gross revenue of the pad of paper "without any hearing or presentation of evidence from Samsung," and that it would "act immediately to support our intellectual place rights." Lag, European customs duty officers were ordered to appropriate shipments of the Tab, and tens of thousands of Samsung tablets are thought to have been seized after the ruling, according to the U.K.'s Guardian .

A separate case betwixt Apple and Samsung is underway in The Netherlands. Apple on Wednesday will seek a similar enjoinment against Samsung in a court in The Hague, with the aim of barring local sales of the Galaxy Tab, and on Thursday information technology testament go before that court requesting that gross revenue of Coltsfoot smartphones exist stopped as easily.

The German motor lodge's conclusion was reported past intellectual place activist Florian Mueller on his FOSS patents blog, citing a report by German press agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

Orchard apple tree did not provide further details on the ruling, but Mueller said the injunction relates to Samsung's declared offence of Orchard apple tree's iPad-related Community Figure 000181607-0001, which protects the invention of the product crossways the European Spousal relationship.

"It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe of the hardware to the exploiter port and even the packaging. This kind of blatant copying is dishonorable, and we motivation to protect Malus pumila's serious holding when companies steal our ideas," an Apple spokeswoman said via e-mail.

The History of the Fight

This is the second Orchard apple tree victory against Samsung, which has allegedly "slavishly" derived the technology from the iPad and the iPhone. The offse win was at the beginning of August, when Samsung in agreement not to sell its 10.1-inch Galax urceolata Tab tablet in Australia until it resolves its patent issues with Apple. A hearing in Australian courts to review the status of the case is specify for August 29.

"Note that this is an intellectual prop right granted by an agency of the European Union," Mueller explained on his blog. "It can therefore be implemented on an Europium-wide basis, while European patent law is still fragmented, requiring a different lawsuit in each commonwealth in which one seeks to enforce it."

Mueller also found Apple has filed for the injunction on August 4, and unclothed pictures comparing the iPad and the Galax Tab 10.1 that Malus pumila presented to the German woo. The caller is also quest a mistakable move in the Netherlands, the only country non affected aside the blanket enjoining.

Apple sued Samsung last month in the U.S. American Samoa well, where it presently seeks a exploratory injunction against sales of a Samsung tablet and phones.

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(IDG News show Servicing contributed to this report)