Samsung is subject to Apple tablet in the German Armed

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Samsung is subject to Apple tablet in the German Armed

The urgent application by Samsung – rejected. The iPad rival Galaxy Tab may also not continue to be sold in Germany. The District Court of Düsseldorf has upheld a preliminary injunction appropriate. Apple has prevailed in a dispute with Samsung to design the iPad bonds before the court in Düsseldorf. Sales of Samsung‘s tablet computers Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany is prohibited. The court reiterated on Friday its preliminary injunction. Apple accuses the South Korean group, with the Galaxy tab to copy the iPad.

In the Düsseldorf process was all about the exterior of the Samsung Tablets, no patents on software or technology. In 2004, Apple had design elements of a tablet computer can be protected in Europe as so-called design. The court had to consider whether the Galaxy Tab to the stored images of the design looks too similar to a direct comparison of the Galaxy with the iPad device could not.

After the settlement, the board came to believe that Samsung have not kept the necessary distance to the Apple model, the Chief Judge Johanna Hofmann-Brueckner said the verdict was announced. Products from competitors like Asus or Toshiba showed it quite clear that there are other design possibilities. Samsung also references to earlier studies tablet, which were published before the Apple design convinced, not the judges. (Reference: 14c O 194/11)

As a result, it is Samsung‘s Germany subsidiary prohibited Europe tablet devices with certain characteristics, such as offering among other things, a rectangular shape, a flat surface, rounded corners and a curved back. The Korean parent company, Samsung, they may not sell in Germany. Apple had originally sought a temporary injunction by a Europe-wide ban on the sale, the court modified the injunction, however, from later.

In addition, Samsung had to go to another available from Düsseldorf also be smaller Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the state to remove the electronics fair IFA in Berlin . The procedure in Düsseldorf is part of a global conflict of Apple and Samsung , which is one of the German patent expert Florian Mueller currently 19 complaints in different countries.