Apple Wins Ban On Samsung


Apple has won an injunction by a Dutch court on Wednesday against the commercialization of three models of Samsung Electronics smartphone in some European countries after the patent infringement.

Apple, which has invaded the high-end phone market, and its popular iPhone, said that Samsung had violated three of its patents. The court decided that the Samsung smartphone Galaxy S, S II, and Ace, Apple violated a patent.

The order applies to the Netherlands and other European countries where the patent is registered and is effective in seven weeks and one day after Samsung acknowledges, before October 13, said a spokesman for the tribunal in The Hague.

Wednesday's decision on the interpretation and the "nothing to do with the case," said Corti. The same order can not be questioned, said a spokeswoman for the court.

Samsung has unveiled four new models in its range of smartphones Galaxy Wednesday, extending its flagship product line for cheaper phones to take advantage of growth in new markets.

(Reporting by Greg Roumeliotis and Gilbert Kreijger, lawyers, edited by Erica Billingham)