“After a Dutch court ordered a preliminary injunction against three Samsung smartphones (which is far from devastating to Samsung but adds another piece to Apple’s ‘copycat’ story) and a German court upheld — at least until September 9, 2011, but probably beyond — a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Apple won an important scheduling victory in the Northern District of California,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.

“Apple’s first federal lawsuit against Samsung and Samsung’s counterclaims (which used to be a separate lawsuit prior to being consolidated into this litigation) will go to trial starting July 30, 2012,” Mueller reports. “This federal case is only one of 19 lawsuits going on between the parties in 12 courts in 9 countries on 4 continents. With the expedited trial in California, it’s still possible that maybe one or a couple of the other jurisdictions will take final decisions (leaving preliminary injunctions aside) before Apple’s original federal lawsuit gets decided, but Apple has at least ensured that there won’t be too much of a delay between possible decisions in other countries and the one to be taken in its home court.”

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