Australia: Apple manages to extend the injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1

While the injunction blocking the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia was to end today, Apple has managed to make it longer than a week after the High Court of the country. The Cupertino stimulus and the machine against Australian Samsung.
It was thought that the tablet Samsung finally saw the end of the tunnel in Australia, but the war seems far from over. After filing a new appeal in Germany a few days ago, still on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, it seemed obvious that Apple would try again to block the arrival of the tablet in the land of kangaroos.
Surprisingly, when the court seemed inclined to allow Sydney’s arrival terminal on the Australian market, the country’s High Court, however, postponed to December 9 the end of the preliminary injunction: it is actually to let the court time to consider the appeal of Apple, the Cupertino having obviously opposed to the sale of the tablet, which would violate some of its patents.


According to Peter Black, a professor specializing in intellectual property law, delaying the end of the injunction is logical: the High Court had no choice to allow time to study the application of new Apple. He said the injunction will be lifted, “I still think it is highly unlikely that the High Court gives reason” to Apple, he told SMH. “Judges of the High Court does not wish to lift the injunction if they were not sure of the merits of the case.”
To believe Peter Black, it would then won a reprieve by Apple, and only a reprieve. Still, even if the injunction was finally lifted on December 9, the future of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia seems bleak: hard to imagine just a few days holiday, Australians wishing to invest in a shelf waiting in uncertainty the arrival of the Samsung device without turning to competition. We imagine, however, that real victory would still good morale of the South Korean company.