Despite the fact that Apple scored a monumental victory against Samsung in their high-profile patent trial, the war isn’t over yet. Samsung has been ordered to pay the Cupertino-based company $1 billion in damages for patent infringement but this not the end of the road for the Korean electronics giant yet. As we all know, the manufacturer’s current flagship device, the Samsung Galaxy S III, has been selling like crazy since hitting the shelves back in May and has now racked a total number of 20 million units sold in just a hundred days. In addition to that, the company just announced the successor to its first generation phablet, the Samsung Galaxy Note II, which they expect to hit sales of 20 million as well although it is more of a long-term plan.
Going back to the jury decision, although the jury found Samsung guilty of patent infringement, they found out that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 did not infringe on any of the design patents of Apple. Looking back, a preliminary injunction was already placed on the tablet back in June because a court found that it infringed on Apple’s ‘889 design patent. This led to the banning of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from sales in US shores.
But since the jury in the most recent patent trial between the two giants found that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 did not infringe on any of Apple’s design patents, the Korean smartphone manufacturer has requested that the injunction be lifted so it can continue selling the tablet in our side of the world. Judge Lucy Koh however denied the request to have the ban lifted. In a ruling, Judge Koh mentioned that she has no way of lifting the sales ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 because Samsung appealed the injunction on a different court and she has no jurisdiction over that even if she wanted to lift the ban.
Judge Koh gave the impression that she wanted the ban lifted if she had jurisdiction over the matter say that if she had jurisdiction over the matter, she will most likely lift the ban given the fact that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 was found not infringing Apple’s design patents. In short, Samsung will likely get the injunction on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 lifted, it’s just not as soon as it wants.
As for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, this device is already a bit aging but it still packs impressive components under the hood. It has an NVIDIA Tegra 2 T20 chipset under the hood with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor clocked at 1 GHz and a full gigabyte of RAM. The slate was released in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB in terms of storage capacity while its display is a 10.1-inch PLS TFT panel fashioned from Gorilla Glass with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Its camera department on the other hand is comprised of a rear 3.15MP shooter and a front 2MP snapper.
