London: ‘Samsung’ has won a patent battle against their rival ‘Apple’, with a British judge ruling that Samsung’s Galaxy tablet was not “cool” enough to be confused with Apple’s iPad, AFP reported on Monday.
According to reports, Britain’s high court ruled that the Galaxy tablet made by Samsung, the world’s largest electronics company, did not breach Apple’s registered design and that consumers were not likely to confuse it with the iPad tablet.
“They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design,” Judge Colin Birss said in his ruling.
He added that the Samsung tablet is much thinner than the iPad, with “unusual details on the back”, and gave Apple 21 days to appeal against the decision.
The iPad holds around 65 percent of the burgeoning global tablet computer market, with the Samsung Galaxy making up around 6 percent of global sales, according to researchers ABI and IHS.
A Samsung spokeswoman welcomed the judgment and warned its rival against further legal action.
“Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims in other countries based on such generic designs, innovation in the industry could be harmed and consumer choice unduly limited,” she said.
On the other hand, an Apple spokesman insisted that the Samsung had stolen designs from the US giant but declined to say whether the firm would be appealing against the ruling.
“It’s no coincidence that Samsung’s latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging,” he told AFP.
“This kind of blatant copying is wrong and, as we’ve said many times before, we need to protect Apple’s intellectual property when companies steal our ideas.”
Apple and Samsung are engaged in a slew of patent suits against each other in international courts, with both companies vying for a bigger stake of the smartphone and tablet markets.
A US appeals court on Friday rejected Samsung’s bid to overturn a ban on US sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphones, which are made in collaboration with Google.
Also on Friday, Samsung said it expected a record operating profit of 6.7 trillion won ($5.9 billion, 4.8 billion euros) in the second quarter, amid strong sales of its mobile devices.
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