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Samsung: Australian Tab ban should be lifted

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Samsung has appealed for the Australian ban on its Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to be overturned.<br />
Citing errors of law, Samsung's legal team has insisted that the ban over alleged patent infringement is wrongful, despite a judge agreeing that Apple's intellectual property had been infringed.<br />
The injunction was a preliminary one, but Samsung's lawyer Neil Young insisted that it was based on "irrelevant considerations".<br />
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The ban was handed down on 13 October, to the dismay of Samsung, who immediately indicated that they would fight against it.<br />
Apple believes that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 infringes on three of its patents, and has already rejected a deal offered by Samsung over the Australian market.<br />
In the US, a judge has ruled that Apple's patents have been infringed against by Samsung, and there are also legal battles occurring in the European market.<br />
Samsung's spat with Apple is by no means the only patent dispute going on – with most of the major players involved in some kind of legal proceedings.<br />
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Samsung: Australian Tab ban should be lifted

Samsung has appealed for the Australian ban on its Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to be overturned. Citing errors of law, Samsung's...

Apple alleges Andy Rubin got inspiration for Android while working at Apple

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Apple claims that Rubin was a "low-level engineer" who reported directly to the engineers who invented one of the patents it claims HTC infringes. Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents surmises this means Rubin may have "contributed to the implementation of the claimed invention." If true, this allegation would go a long way toward proving Apple's claim that Rubin derived some of Android's frameworks from work he did at Apple.</div>
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Mueller notes that this has "serious ramifications" should Apple ever decide to sue Google itself rather than suing it by proxy via Android handset manufacturers. "Google (or a Google subsidiary like [Motorola]) would almost certainly be found to infringe the relevant patent intentionally, and willful infringement would greatly increase Apple's chances of obtaining an injunction as well as triple damages."</div>
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Mueller points out that the judge presiding in Oracle's lawsuit against Google also suspects Rubin of willful patent infringement. If Google is found guilty of willful infringement in both the Oracle suit and an as yet theoretical suit from Apple, Google's future (and Android's) looks very rocky indeed.</div>
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Apple alleges Andy Rubin got inspiration for Android while working at Apple

A substantial wrinkle has just been introduced in Apple's patent infringement case against HTC. According to recent briefs that Appl...