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Apple vs. Samsung: Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban lifted in Australia

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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet is back on sale in Australia after a temporary sales ban on the competitor to Apple’s iPad expired on the device due to a patent lawsuit between the two companies in that country.

The lifting of the sales injunction is a win for Samsung, since it finally can start selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 after the South Korean tech giant voluntarily pulled the Galaxy Tab 10.1 from shelves in August and an Australian court order made the ban official in October.

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Samsung, however, won’t be able to sell the Galaxy Tab until next week as it wasn’t allowed to import shipments of Galaxy Tab 10.1 into Australia as a part of the sales ban, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Apple and Samsung are suing each other over alleged patent infringement related to technologies used in their respective tablets, and the expiration of the ban is the latest development before the dispute goes to go to trial in March.

But as we’ve reported the clash in Australia is just one part of a larger international patent battle between the two consumer electronics heavyweights that cover touchscreen technology, the look and feel of products and even how the devices connect to the Internet.

Apple and Samsung are suing one another in the U.S., France and 30 other European countries, as well as Japan. And in other countries, the litigation has spread to encompass Samsung’s Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones, other Galaxy Tab tablets (all products that run Google’s Android operating system), and Apple’s iPhone and iPad products.

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-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles

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