Samsung wins against Apple in the Netherlands on tablet design

The Court of Appeal in The Hague has ruled that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is sufficiently different from Apple's European design patent that the tablet can remain on sale in the Netherlands.

Samsung welcomed the ruling, which affirmed an August 2011 ruling that the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is distinctive and does not infringe Apple's intellectual property rights, a spokesman said. The ruling again demonstrates that Apple's products simply do not warrant the intellectual property protections that it believes they should have, he added.