Last week, we a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/19/apple-seeking-complete-ban-on-samsung-galaxy-tablets-and-phones-in-eu/"noted/a that a Dutch court was weighing an infringement claim by Apple against Samsung over the Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets, with Apple requesting a complete ban on the sale of Samsungs products in the European Union. A decision in that case was to be handed down on September 15th. br/ br/ a href="http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/dutch-court-orders-eu-wide-preliminary.html"iFOSS Patents/i/a and a href="http://tweakers.net/nieuws/76359/rechter-verbiedt-verkoop-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-in-nederland.html"iTweakers.net/i/a [a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://tweakers.net/nieuws/76359/rechter-verbiedt-verkoop-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-in-nederland.htmlhl=enlangpair=auto%7Cen"Google translation/a] now report that the case has been decided ahead of that timeline, with the judge ordering that Samsung's subsidiaries be banned from selling Galaxy smartphones (but not tablets) in many European Union countries as of October 13th. The ban applies to the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II, and Ace phones. br/ br/ centerimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/08/apple_photo_swipe_patent.jpg" br/ iFigures from Apple's photo-swiping patent judged infringed upon by Samsung/i/center br/ The judge's decision was relatively narrow compared to the claims brought by Apple, which included a number of assertions that Samsung had copied Apple's product designs and functionality. The judge rejected most of those claims, finding only that Samsung had violated an Apple patent related to using swiping gestures to switch between photos in a gallery application. The ban will apply in any country where that specific patent is valid, although a href="http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/inpadoc?CC=EPNR=2059868A2KC=A2FT=Ddate=20090520DB=EPODOClocale=en_be"documentation/a suggests that the patent has lapsed in a number of countries due to a failure by Apple to provide necessary documents or fees.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/23/work-on-apples-iphone-5-ads-reportedly-set-to-wrap-in-early-october/"Work on Apple#039;s iPhone 5 Ads Reportedly Set to Wrap in Early October/abr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/23/apple-and-china-telecom-still-in-iphone-talks/"Apple and China Telecom Still in iPhone Talks/abr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/23/iphone-5-hard-shell-cases-begin-to-appear-for-sale/"iPhone 5 Hard Shell Cases Begin to Appear for Sale/abr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/22/itunes-store-offering-free-stream-of-unreleased-red-hot-chili-peppers-album/"iTunes Store Offering Free Stream of Unreleased Red Hot Chili Peppers Album/abr/ bull; a href="http://macrumors.com/2011/08/22/apple-releases-apple-remote-desktop-3-5-1-admin/"Apple Releases Apple Remote Desktop 3.5.1 Admin/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UVPhGkxJMUJin1-62wGZZEZGdQU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UVPhGkxJMUJin1-62wGZZEZGdQU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UVPhGkxJMUJin1-62wGZZEZGdQU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/UVPhGkxJMUJin1-62wGZZEZGdQU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=3gLG2ph-uaA:QR38Skjkifg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=3gLG2ph-uaA:QR38Skjkifg:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=3gLG2ph-uaA:QR38Skjkifg:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/3gLG2ph-uaA" height="1" width="1"/

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