Samsung’s “Galaxy Tab 10.1 is once again available in Germany, despite a preliminary injunction that Apple won in early August and the Dusseldorf Regional Court confirmed in September,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.
“Samsung has designed and slightly renamed the product (it’s now called Galaxy Tab 10.1N), apparently in an attempt to steer clear of infringement of Apple’s asserted Community design, a design-related intellectual property right,” Mueller reports. “Mobiflip.de reported on this today. Mobiflip points to an online store that offers it and published photos of the old (banned) and the new design. For example, as AllAboutSamsung.de notes, the metal frame — the so-called bezel — now wraps all around the edge to the extent that a part of it covers the margins of the front side. That is a characteristic of at least one of the devices rejected by the court as prior art. It seems to me that this design resulted from teamwork between Samsung’s German lawyers and its product design group.”
MacDailyNews Take: Lawyers are well known for delighting customers with their innate industrial design skills. (You cannot read the prior sentence with enough sarcasm.)
Mueller reports, “I’m not in the position to say that this product definitely steers clear of infringement. That’s up for the courts to decide. But without a doubt, Samsung has upped the ante for Apple and its lawyers in case they wish to request a new injunction or allege that this constitutes an infringement of the existing one.”
Read more in the full article here.
Okay. so now, they aren’t copying it *as* much.
Looks like an oversized first gen iPhone.
It’ll be a cold day in Hell before I buy any Samsung consumer product. Gutless, unimaginative schmucks viewing potential customers as clueless marks. Screw ’em.
You polish a turd, its still a turd!!!
Oooohh — it’s blacker!
Samsung should have made the bezel brown. Then, “no one” would accuse Samsung of copying Apple… copying Microsoft, maybe. 🙂
Samsung Innovates!
Looks like the same POS from before. Except its a bigger POS than before. LOL
Lets get to the juicy parts soon regarding the Android OS that is a ripoff iOS.
… Pigs wearing lipsticks are still Pigs 🙂
Come on Euro!!! Protect intellectual properties ( IP ).
Do Not Be Like China 🙁
………. Go Apple!!!!
And now with this latest swoop of Apple patents just released, Samesong can start all over on their revisions. Hope they don’t use swipe-to-unlock! Heh, heh.
hahaha…redesigned just in time to remove all location based services!!!