In an important ruling Apple has lost against Samsung an
important copyright appeal over the design Samsung was accused of copying. The ruling
could potentially put an end to the legal fight between the two giant firms that
spread almost all across Europe. The fight was over the patent for Smartphones as
well as tablets.
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The Court of Appeal in the UK did not reverse the decision
taken by the High Court earlier that though there were some types of
similarities between the designs of the phones by the two companies, the Galaxy
Tablet from Samsung did not gatecrash the designs made by Apple because the Samsung
products weren’t ‘cool’.
The decision stands for the entire Europe. So this means,
there would be no legalities involved between the two manufacturers as far as
the design is concerned for the European region. There were no comments from
Apple as yet. That is not all. Apple has to also carry out ads in some selected
newspapers as well as their web site that Samsung didn’t copy their designs.
There was enthusiasm in the Samsung camp saying that Apple
wasn’t the first company to design a table that carried rounded corners to a
rectangular shaped gadget.
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