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Models display the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tab in Seoul last month. Apple has won an injunction barring any further imports of the tablet to 26 EU countries. Lee Jin-man/AP

Apple wins injunction blocking import of Samsung Galaxy tablets

Every country in the EU – except for the Netherlands – is subject to the injunction given by a court in Dusseldorf.

A GERMAN COURT has granted Apple an injunction which bans the import sale of Samsung’s Galaxy tablet in 26 EU countries, including Ireland.

The junction, handed down by a court in Dusseldorf on Tuesday, applies to every EU member state but the Netherlands – and underlines Apple’s own status as the world’s leading tablet supplier, according to the Financial Times.

Apple managed to successfully persuade the court that the design, size, user interface and packaging of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet – which runs on a version of Google’s open-source Android operating system – mimick that of its own iPad.

Stores within the EU are permitted to continue selling their stocks of the device, but the ruling means they cannot import any further supplies.

The Guardian reported that a similar injunction in Australia resulted in a delay to the launch of the Galaxy 10.1 there. Samsung has counter-sued, with similar patent complaints, in the US, Japan and its native South Korea.

The Dusseldorf injunction was granted ex parte, meaning Samsung was not present to argue its case. Samsung has vowed to appeal the injunction, granted after an application by Apple last week.

“We intend to act immediately to defend our intellectual property rights through the ongoing legal proceedings in Germany and will continue to actively defend these rights throughout the world,” it said.

The Times of India reports that Apple has filed an identical complaint against Motorola’s Xoom tablet, but it was not clear whether an injunction had been sought in that example.

Read: Samsung v Apple: the battle continues >

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    Mute Mark Dennehy
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    Jun 15th 2011, 5:43 PM

    Wow. That only took three years of every expert in the world saying it was the right thing to do. Time for a round of applause?

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    Mute Thomas Stadler
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    Jun 15th 2011, 6:44 PM

    Brian Lenihan spent the last 2 years buying out Anglo debt and converting it to state debt, so that this could not be done. He worked hard to prevent this and unfortunately it was one of the few areas that he achieved in. There is only the scraps left now, but at least it is something. Traitorous bastard.

    As Moan Burton says “A reply I have received to a written parliamentary question to the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, has confirmed that the bulk of the Anglo Irish bondholders have already been bailed out.

    The reply (copy below) confirms that only €4bn of senior Anglo bonds, and €2.4bn of the subordinate debt, remain which are not guaranteed by taxpayers.
    Anglo has already been given €4bn in cash, €18.88bn in promissory notes and a commitment of another €6.4bn in promissory notes (totalling €29.28bn).
    On Black Thursday, September 30th, Lenihan said that the bill for Anglo could be even €5bn higher (which could bring the total tab for Anglo alone to nearly €20,000 k for every person working in the country).
    Interest on Anglo bailout alone could run to €1.5bn a year for the next decade, adding to the spending cuts and tax hikes needed to meet fiscal targets.
    It is a disgrace that two years were wasted, and bondholders quietly repaid in full, in the two years since the initial bank guarantee was introduced.
    It is amazing that the govt. did not use this time to introduce a Special Resolution Mechanism for banks, as was done in the UK after the collapse of Northern Rock for instance, which would have allowed a sharing of the burden between bondholders and taxpayers.
    Columnists in the Financial Times and The Economist, amongst others, are baffled by Fianna Fáil’s determination to pile all the pain on taxpayers while professional investors who took a punt on our banks get away scot-free.
    The disclosures in this reply will greatly add to the public anger at the huge financial millstone that Fianna Fail has placed around the necks of successive generations of Irish taxpayers.

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    Mute Biff Cowan
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    Jun 16th 2011, 10:49 AM

    Sure Pearse Doherty SF was the first to speak of burning the bond holders and all the other partys and news media looked down their nose at him. He was way ahead.

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