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IIRC Apple won bans for Samsung devices on US market, which gave them time to catch up with innovations in the next iPhone generations. These innovations were not so easy to copy unlike the whole smartphone concept and "round corners design".


There were preliminary injunctions on Samsung's tablets that were later overturned. Apple lost all design claims on tablets everywhere, due to the obviousness and prior arts. In the UK where Apple's EU-wide community design claims were handled, Apple was ordered to stop and correct Apple's misleading PR campaign against Samsung. The company continued their crap about Samsung's non-existing infringement and Apple was subsequently sanctioned for defying the court order.


Samsung also won an ban of Apple imports at the ITC that the Obama administration overturned.




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