Samsung wants the sales ban for the Tab 10.1 in the U.S. will be lifted. Last week found a jury that Samsung’s tablet does not infringe on the design of the iPad. At the end of June found a judge yet so.
In the juryvonnis of the great lawsuit between Samsung and Apple, which last week was announced and stating that Samsung more than a billion dollars to Apple have to pay for patentschending, also says that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe the design of Apple’s iPad.
At the end of June was the sale of the Tab 10.1 in America are prohibited; Apple argued in a lawsuit with the success that the Tab 10.1 infringes on designpatenten of the company. Judge Lucy Koh decided on the sale of the tablet, in anticipation of the lawsuit over the issue, to prohibit. Koh is also the right that with the big lawsuit between Samsung and Apple was set to endure.
Samsung has now made a request to the court filed for the sales ban to turn back, reports Reuters. Samsung signed earlier objection against the ban, but judge Koh explained that when, in addition to himself. According to the lawyers of Samsung, after the verdict of the jury no reason for the sales ban to maintain.
To the Tab 10.1 in several countries, litigation is conducted. In Germany it led to a sale offer, which Samsung a new version is introduced with a custom design. In Australia, the tablet, briefly prohibited and in the United Kingdom be a judge Apples request for a sales ban. In the Netherlands, Apple had also to be a prohibition, but that request was the beginning of this year by the court of appeal in The Hague rejected.
The ongoing lawsuits over the Galaxy Tab 10.1 have for consumers with little impact; the tablet arrived last summer and is now succeeded by the slightly modified Galaxy Tab 10.1 N, the Galaxy Tab 2 and the smaller variants of Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 7.7.