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Following on going saga between Apple and Samsung for supremacy,  new information reaching us is that Samsung just achieved another victory in the US over Apple with the ban of iPhone 4, 3GS, 3 and iPad 2 (WiFi + cellular). This is as a result of Samsung stating that these banned products infringed on its patents with the way data handled by the banned devices are encoded and decoded over a cellular network. Consequently, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) today ruled that Apple infringed on Samsung Patent No. 7,706,348 titled "Apparatus and Method for encoding /decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA mobile communication system" and as such iPhone 4 (AT&T models), iPhone 3GS ( AT&T models), iPhone 3G (AT&T models), iPad AT&T models(AT&T models) and iPad 2 3G (AT&T models) be  disallowed for sale in the US. Although it is very certain that Apple would appeal in a federal court but this won't tone things down for Apple. J...

Battles are fought everyday in this present age and Apple vs Samsung is one of those battles that go way back and seems like it will never end. While Apple is always in the attack and Samsung in the defense and the court is the middle ground where all the decisions are made. Recently Apple filed a suit against Samsung stating that Samsung 10.1 inch tablet was an infringement and copy of the iPad's design.  Therefore Apple requested that the device be banned. Yesterday in a Dutch appeal court Samsung was handed a victory verdict nullifying Apple's claims that Samsung copied and infringed on patents regarding the iPad's design. The Dutch court ruled that Samsung had not infringed on Apple's rounded corners patent of the iPad. The judge noted that Apple's iPad isn't the first tablet with a rectangular shape with rounded corners and therefore doesn't have monopoly of such design. He further noted that ”the  design of Samsung tablets differ enough from the i...