Samsung Redesigns Galaxy Tab 10.1N To Be Sold Later This Month
Samsung has had to redesign one of its tablet computers after sales of it were banned in Germany.
Apple had slammed the South Korean firm’s Galaxy Tab 10.1N because it looked very much like its EU registered version of its iPad tablet.
As per a spokeswoman for Samsung, the new version has been designed for “growing consumer demand for Samsung’s distinctive and innovative products”. The redesigned version will go on sale later this month.
However there is talk that Apple may slam a new injunction saying the new design infringes the existing court order.
An expert on such patents, Florian Mueller writes on his blog “A community design is infringed only if all of its key characteristics are matched, or that is the overall impression it makes on an informed person.”
The two companies are involved in other patent disputes in US, Japan, Italy, South Korea and Australia.
The Cupertino, California based company says that Samsung has infringed upon its touch screen and gesture intellectual rights while the latter claims that Apple failed to license its 3G wireless technology.
A Paris court judge was to rule yesterday on Samsung’s request to block iPhone 4S sales in France.


