Apple wins key German patent case against Samsung

Apple won the latest battle in a global legal war with Samsung yesterday when a German court banned the Korean firm from selling a tablet computer in Germany, ruling it had copied the iPad.
The court, in the western city of Duesseldorf, said Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 computer, a rival to Apple's iconic iPad, had infringed key patent laws.
However, it limited the sales ban to Germany, despite ruling in a previous judgement that the ban should be Europe-wide.