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"A US court has banned Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the country, Reuters reports.\r\n\r\nJudge Lucy Koh has moved to enjoin sales of the tablet device,\u00A0granting Apple's request for a preliminary injunction.\r\n\r\nSamsung has suffered similar bans in other parts of the world, and the company agreed to halt sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia last August. In Europe, a German court barred the device, forcing the Korean firm to introduce a revised Galaxy Tab 10.1N in order to avoid the infringements.\r\n\r\nThough Apple tried to ban the modified product, a German court gave Samsung the okay to proceed and sell the device.\r\n\r\nSamsung also saw further momentum last week in The Netherlands, where the company won a ruling against Apple, after the iPad was found to have infringed upon patents in the device.\r\n\r\nJudge Koh has taken a no-nonsense approach to the tactics of both companies.\u00A0At one point in a\u00A0trial back in October, Koh held both the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the iPad over her head and asked both companies' lawyers to tell her which one was which. Court correspondent Dan Levine said that it &amp;quot;took them a while to do so&amp;quot;.\r\n\r\nThe judge previously suggested that, though Samsung infringes upon technical patents in the iPad, she would\u00A0not grant a preliminary injunction\u00A0against the sale of the Galaxy Tab device. One reason behind the decision had been the existence of a 1994 concept design for a tablet.\r\n\r\nThough it never made it to market, the design challenged\u00A0Apple\u2019s claim\u00A0that the iPad design patent was being infringed upon.\r\n\r\nImage via Flickr / liewcf"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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