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Originally Posted by RockdaMan
I don't think the larger picture is about Samsung. Is there any evidence that its tablets sales are growing and are cannibalizing iPad sales? This feels more like a warning shot across the bow of all the tablet makers.
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Not according to the article that you linked above. Even in Germany the judge limited this 'medium protection', i.e. to tablets that were very similar to the iPad:
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“There are a lot of alternative ways to design a tablet device, as the market amply shows,” the judge said at a hearing. “We think Apple’s E.U. design rights grant a medium range of protection, if not a broad one.”
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and this was backed up with the quote from the Apple attorney:
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“We’re not sitting here because Apple wants to prohibit all kind of tablets,” he said. “We’re here because Samsung’s Galaxy tab is the closest copy of the iPad. There is no other tablet that comes that close.”
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What's still not clear is what the protection is for. Is it just something that looks similar, or does the ruling mean that nobody else sell a tablet in Germany that slim and minimalist?
Graham