{"id":577,"date":"2011-09-06T03:29:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T09:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2011-09-05T03:48:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T09:48:54","slug":"samsung-pulls-tablet-pc-from-trade-show-amid-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/06\/samsung-pulls-tablet-pc-from-trade-show-amid-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung pulls tablet PC from trade show amid row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/i\/tim\/\/2010\/09\/02\/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab-1_610x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Samsung Electronics said Monday it has withdrawn its new tablet computer from a major electronics fair in Berlin after a German court accepted a complaint from U.S. rival Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Sunday removed its Galaxy Tab 7.7 inch from the annual IFA show following an order Friday from a district court in Duesseldorf banning sales and marketing, a company spokesman told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamsung respects the court\u2019s decision\u2026 and therefore decided not to display any more the Galaxy Tab 7.7 in the IFA,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung however vowed to take \u201call available measures, including legal options\u201d to defend its presence in the European market, saying the court ruling \u201cseverely limits consumer choice in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s move by the Duesseldorf court follows an interim ban in late August on German sales of Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Tab 10.1. That ban remains in force until the court makes its final ruling on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung\u2014the world\u2019s second-biggest mobile phone maker\u2014is embroiled in a series of patent lawsuits with Apple over designs and technologies in their smartphone and tablet computers.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, in complaints filed to courts in several countries, requested a ban on the selling and marketing of Samsung smartphones and tablet PCs, which it said had \u201cslavishly\u201d copied Apple\u2019s market-leading iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung has launched counter-suits, claiming Apple infringed its wireless technologies. <\/p>\n<p>Photo: CNET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s Samsung Electronics said Monday it has withdrawn its new tablet computer from a major electronics fair in Berlin after a German court accepted a complaint from U.S. rival Apple. Samsung Sunday removed its Galaxy Tab 7.7 inch from the annual IFA show following an order Friday from a district court in Duesseldorf banning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}