“Apple Inc has rejected an offer from South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co to help settle their tablet-computer dispute in Australia, hoping for an important court victory there in its global campaign of patent litigation,” Narayanan Somasundaram and Amy Pyett report for Reuters.
“Apple has claimed Samsung’s Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets had ‘slavishly’ copied its iPhone and iPad. It has already secured a block on the latest Galaxy tablets in Germany and is delaying their launch in Australia,” Somasundaram and Pyett report.
“Samsung made an offer to Apple last week, promising to help ensure an expedited court hearing in return for Samsung being able to immediately launch the Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia,” Somasundaram and Pyett report. “But both companies made clear to the Federal Court on Tuesday that there appeared to be no prospect of such a deal.”
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