Apple Wins Dutch Ban on Samsung Galaxy Products
South Korean firm has already formed a workaround for the infringement.
Due to patent infringement, a Dutch court has ruled in Apple's favor in its court case battle against Samsung, subsequently ordering the ban of certain Galaxy tablets and smartphones.
The ban applies to older Android-powered products that make use of an Apple-patented method for scrolling through images in a photo gallery via the utilization of a touch screen.
According to the Dutch court, such products relates to Samsung's Galaxy devices that has versions 2.2.1 and higher which don't use the South Korean company's updated "blue flash" photo gallery technology.
Patent expert Florian Mueller explained that the ban won't completely see Samsung being forced out of business in the Netherlands. He said the technology giant has created a workaround for the infringement.
"Samsung has already done all the work necessary to work around this injunction. It made that effort last year after the preliminary injunction that today was converted into a permanent one," Mueller said. "Instead of a bounce-back in the photo gallery, there's a "blue flash", which the court recognises to be a valid workaround. Also, there won't be any impact on product sales."
Either way, should Samsung fail to comply with the ruling, it will be forced to pay a penalty of $129,000 every day to Apple.

Seriously? They got a patent to SCROLL THROUGH YOUR PHOTO LIBRARY ON A TOUCHSCREEN PHONE???? Who approved this?
I hope that judgement gets overturned.
Seriously? They got a patent to SCROLL THROUGH YOUR PHOTO LIBRARY ON A TOUCHSCREEN PHONE???? Who approved this?
I hope that judgement gets overturned.
BTW GN2 is the greatest.
This is exactly why i don't buy Apply products, they sue other companies over the silliest things. Not to mention Apple is voiding there bowels where they eat, samsung makes 90% of the chips inside there products..
Patents, the presents those consumers deserve.
Thanksgiving gettogether was fun. Nobody had iPhones to compare, so we all had to whip out our Android smartphones and blackberries and compare photo quality, screen size, connection quality, etc. I use a 1 yr old moto droid bionic, and I was impressed with the Samsung Galaxy N2. It's too bad those folks have a system in place to limit their choices.
I wouldn't be surprised if apple is paying off the legal system in these countries, maybe not all, but a few of them for sure.
Of all the world's government corruption, alot of the powerful ones are in the courts.