{"id":68692,"date":"2013-01-17T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T07:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=68692"},"modified":"2013-01-17T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T08:12:03","slug":"samsung-galaxy-tablets-do-not-infringe-apple-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/68692-samsung-galaxy-tablets-do-not-infringe-apple-design.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy tablets do not infringe Apple design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch court, citing previous decisions in British courts, has ruled that some <a title=\"Samsung Electronics\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333656-Samsung\">Samsung Electronics<\/a> Galaxy tablets do not infringe an <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-Inc\">Apple<\/a> design.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s ruling by a district court in The Hague concerned the rounded corners of Samsung&#8217;s <a title=\"Galaxy Tab 10.1\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/498224-Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-10-1\">Galaxy Tab 10.1<\/a>, <a title=\"Galaxy Tab 8.9\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/498236-Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-8-9\">Galaxy Tab 8.9<\/a>, and <a title=\"Galaxy Tab 7.7\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/498238-Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-7-7\">Galaxy Tab 7.7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to believe that Apple was not the first to design a tablet with a rectangular shape and rounded corners and that the origins of Apple&#8217;s registered design features can be found in numerous examples,&#8221; Samsung said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Samsung, the world&#8217;s top two smartphone makers, are locked in patent disputes in at least 10 countries as they vie to win customers for their latest gadgets in the lucrative mobile market.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sara Webb)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More patent news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Google drops key patent claims against Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/68306-google-drops-key-patent-claims-against-microsoft.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google drops key patent claims against Microsoft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Samsung ordered to release sales figures in Apple patent case\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/67778-samsung-ordered-to-release-sales-figures-in-apple-patent-case.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung ordered to release sales figures in Apple patent case<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Apple to drop patent claims against new Samsung phone\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/67598-apple-to-drop-patent-claims-against-new-samsung-phone.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple to drop patent claims against new Samsung phone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch court has ruled that some Samsung Electronics Galaxy tablets do not infringe an Apple design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":62770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[605,1103,15623,467,645],"class_list":["post-68692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-apple","tag-patent-dispute","tag-patent-lawsuit","tag-patents","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68694,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68692\/revisions\/68694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}