Samsung Fights to Lift Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban in Europe

Samsung representatives all over the world have been dealing with Apple’s preliminary injunctions that would prohibit the sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1. The device is supposedly launched in Australia, claiming it is a different model, but backed out the last minute. The American launch, meanwhile, still hangs in the balance.

In Germany, Samsung is determined to fight it out as the company will go to court in Dusseldorf to appeal the court’s decision to ban sales of the GalTab 10.1 across the European Union (except in the Netherlands).

TechCrunch says that if these preliminary import bans become permanent, it would change the tablet wars dramatically. It would not only affect the GalTab (considered as the iPad’s strongest competitor) and potentially other future tablets, but Apple’s reputation as well.

“I whole-heartedly believe that Apple has every right to defend its trade dress,” Jordan Crook writes on TechCrunch. “At the same time, Apple tends to overreach. Once the complaints start moving into the software arean, things get really blurry… (with Apple ending up) looking entitled and desperate to preemptively squash competition.”

But at the end of the day, Crook adds, it is the consumers who will hurt the most.

Source: TechCrunch

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