On the eve of Google’s I/O conference, Apple has scored a major legal victory with a court ruling granting Apples request for a preliminary junction, which would in effect ban the sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1. This ban doesn’t affect Samsung’s newer Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and it is not clear if this ban would have long reaching affects on other Samsung tablets. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh commented,
“Although Samsung has a right to compete, it does not have a right to compete unfairly by flooding the market with infringing products. While Samsung will certainly suffer lost sales from the issuance of an injunction, the hardship to Apple of having to directly compete with Samsung’s infringing products outweighs Samsung’s harm in light of the previous findings by the Court.”
The ruling was scheduled for Friday, so Koh made the decision in advance, not allowing Samsung to make further arguments. This battle is far from over, but score one for the suits in Cupertino. Before his passing, Steve Jobs had definitive feelings about Android, “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
Source: All Things D
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Wow, I’m still a little shocked that Apple managed to pull this off, even if it is for a now defunct device. Samsung does also have the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, which is a redesign specifically to get around a similar injunction in Europe.
I guess that’s why the Microsoft Surface Tablet looks so significantly different to the iPad — to avoid the possibility of this happening.
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