Now you see it , now you do n’t : Samsung Electronics erase all trace of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from its exhibition remain firm at the Internationale Funkausstellung ( IFA ) in Berlin on Saturday , just two days after launching the tabletthere .
A sign previously advertising the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 at a Berlin swop show was replaced with an image of the Galaxy Note , after the tablet fell from the booth .
On orifice daylight , a large backlit panel by the stall ’s entrance constitute three mathematical product : the undulation earphone , the Tab tablet and , in the middle , the Note , which is between the two in size . By Sunday , an opaque board advance the Wave had been stick over the signal for the Tab , and staff on the stand resist to talk about the equipment or the changes . “ That ’s confidential , ” said one .
A sign previously advertising the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 at a Berlin trade show was replaced with an image of the Galaxy Note, after the tablet vanished from the booth.
Samsung ’s European PR director , Brendon Gore , was a picayune more approaching about the Galaxy Tab 7.7 ’s luck .
“ We took it away yesterday . It ’s not here , ” he said Sunday . “ When we get an official communication from the Dusseldorf tourist court , we can gloss . That ’s all I can say . ”
Dusseldorf is whereApple is suing Samsungto stop sales of the 7.7 ’s big brother , the Galaxy Tab 10.1 .
European intellectual property law allow company to protect to the appearance of their Cartesian product , in accession to the copyright , patent of invention and stylemark right hand recognize in other jurisdictions . Apple claim the appearance of the large Galaxy Tab is too similar to that of its iPad 2 , the plan of which is register with the European Union ’s Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market .
On Aug. 25 , theDusseldorf court upheld a preliminary injunction ordering Samsung Electronics to stop over betray the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany . The injunction had initially censor import of the tablet across the E.U. , but the court later reduced its scope to get across only Germany . A final ruling in the case is expected on Sept. 9 .
Samsung ’s lawyers must at least have anticipate the hypothesis that the court ’s ruling would apply to the smaller pad of paper too : The Galaxy Tab 7.7 present by Samsung staff survey its launching on Thursday bore a prominent monition spikelet : “ Not for cut-rate sale in Germany . ”
Dusseldorf is not the only place Apple and Samsung are fighting one another in the courts . On Aug. 24a Dutch court banned importsof three Samsung smartphones after detect that they breached an Apple patent , while in Australia Samsung has shelve the launch of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 pending the issue of a suit Apple filed with the Federal Court of Australia .
With extra reporting by Nick Barber of IDG News Service and Daniel Behrens of PC Welt .
