Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:37:32 PDT
Business Insider points to a Bloomberg bulletin indicating that a UK judge
has ruled Apple must display on its UK website and in British newspapers a
notice acknowledging that Samsung did not copy the design of the iPad with
its Galaxy Tab 10.1. The UK court had previously ruled that the Galaxy Tab
did not infringe upon Apple's design, with the judge observing that the
Galaxy Tab 10.1 is simply "not as cool" as the iPad.
According to the news flash, Apple will need to post the notice on its UK
website for six months. Apple can presumably still appeal the ruling,
although that information has not yet been disclosed.
We'll update this article once the full Bloomberg report is available.
Update: Bloomberg's article has gone live with additional details on the
situation.
The notice should outline the July 9 London court decision that Samsung’s
Galaxy tablets don’t infringe Apple’s registered designs, Judge Colin
Birss said. It should be posted on Apple’s U.K. website for six months and
published in several newspapers and magazines to correct the damaging
impression the South Korea-based company was copying Apple’s product, Birss
said.
The order means Apple will have to publish “an advertisement” for Samsung,
and is prejudicial to the company, Richard Hacon, a lawyer representing
Cupertino, California-based Apple, told the court. “No company likes to
refer to a rival on its website.”
Samsung had also requested that Apple be barred from making public
statements claiming that the Galaxy Tab had infringed upon the iPad design,
but Birss ruled that Apple is within its rights to make such claims in line
with the company's belief that the ruling is incorrect.
