14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that the whole battle between Apple and Samsung isn't going exactly as the former had hoped in the US, as a federal judge dismissed part of the antitrust claims.
About three or four days ago, we mentioned that Samsung might end up with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 kicked out of the US.
This would have been a big stroke of bad luck under any circumstances, but Samsung has extra reasons to be worried.
After all, not only is the tab already banned in Germany, but it is also off limits in Australia, after apple won similar cases.
Meanwhile, Samsung has been trying to get its own share of banned Apple products, all to no avail so far.
Fortunately for the company, however, the situation in the US at least appears to be swinging in its favor.
While Apple still has a case against it, and Federal judges are still looking over it, some of the antitrust charges were reportedly dropped.
Apple had said that “Samsung misrepresented its intent to license certain patents on fair terms” but that did not, ultimately, convince judge Lucy Koh.
For now, Samsung has free reign to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all US states and there is no indication that this will change any time soon.
Then again, Apple is still allowed to make the patent infringement claim, as long as it revises its complaint.
One might wonder why the Cupertino company puts so much effort into banning this one slate, when its iPad is so far in the lead in terms of sales.
Then again, it seems that, there are at least six million Android tablets out in the world, almost half what the iPads managed by now.
Whether or not it makes it anticompetitive, Apple doesn't seem very happy about not having the slate market to itself.