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Galaxy Tab 7.7 banned in Europe in patent case

Galaxy Tab 7.7 imitates Apple design in an 'unacceptable manner,' a German court rules. But it allows sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N, which no longer infringes Apple patents or designs. 

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A man holds a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 during press day at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin last year. A German court has banned European sales of the tablet computer because it infringes Apple's design, Samsung's larger 10.1N tablet now can be sold, it rules.
  • By Associated Press

| BERLIN

A Duesseldorf court has issued a split decision in a patent dispute between rivals Apple andSamsung聽over two of the Korean company's tablet computers.

California-based Apple sued to have sales of both the聽Samsung聽Galaxy聽Tab聽10.1N and the聽Galaxy聽Tab聽7.7 stopped.

But the Duesseldorf state court ruled Tuesday that聽Samsung聽made enough changes to the聽Galaxy聽Tab聽10.1 in its 10.1N that it no longer infringes upon any Apple iPad patents or designs.

It said, however, that the back and sides of the smaller聽Galaxy聽Tab聽7.7 imitated the Apple design in an "unacceptable manner" and ordered European sales stopped.

Samsung聽Electronics and Apple Inc. are engaged in a strategic war over patents in many countries andSamsung聽typically responds to such rulings with design tweaks.

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