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Apple won the latest battle on Friday in a global legal war with Samsung when a German court banned the Korean firm from selling a tablet computer in Germany, ruling it had copied the iPad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The court, in the western city of Duesseldorf, said Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 computer, a rival to Apple’s iconic iPad, had infringed key patent laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presiding judge Johanna Brueckner-Hoffmann said there was a “clear impression of similarity” between the Apple and the Samsung products.<\/p>\n

As an example, she cited the “minimalist, modern form” of the two firms’ products, with flat screens and rounded edges.<\/p>\n

However, it limited the sales ban to Germany, despite ruling in a previous judgement that the ban should be Europe-wide.<\/p>\n

The court ruled that “it could only be competent to order a Europe-wide ban for a firm headquartered outside the European Union if this firm has a German subsidiary,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Korean firm, which denies Apple’s argument that it had “slavishly” copied the market-leading iPhone and iPad, had to pull its latest Galaxy Tab 7.7 inch from a major electronics fair in Berlin earlier this week in view of the case.<\/p>\n

Industry analysts say that in the fast-moving world of tablet computers, which have a very short shelf-life before being replaced by improved products, even a temporary ban on sales can be fatal.<\/p>\n

The two firms are also locked in legal battles in Australia, the United States and Asia.<\/strong> Samsung has responded to Apple’s accusations by filing suits of its own in Seoul, asking for a ban on sales of the US firm’s products in South Korea.<\/p>\n

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, hailed by some in the industry as an “iPad killer”, has been a huge-selling rival to the touch-screen phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Despite their prickly competition, the two actually have a close business relationship.<\/p>\n

Apple was Samsung’s second-biggest client in 2010 after Japan’s Sony<\/strong>, accounting for four percent of the South Korean firm’s 155 trillion won ($143 billion) annual revenue.<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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