Apple Loses Bid to Ban German Samsung Sales

Apple, for the second time, failed to win a ban on sales of Samsung’s Galaxy 10.1N from a German court.

The Dusseldorf Regional Court rejected the bid for an emergency ruling in a case where Apple invoked a European design right. Apple last week lost a similar attempt over a technology patent in a Munich court. A Dusseldorf appeals court last week upheld Apple’s request to ban sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the predecessor model, which the company had won in the same lower court that rejected today’s bid. Samsung began selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, a revised version, in Germany last year to get around that ban. Samsung lost two patent rulings against its rival in a Mannheim court last month.