{"id":30029,"date":"2013-01-17T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=30029"},"modified":"2013-01-17T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T06:57:38","slug":"samsung-scores-another-patent-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/30029\/samsung-scores-another-patent-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung scores another patent victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch court, citing previous decisions in British courts, has ruled that some Samsung Electronics Galaxy tablets do not infringe an Apple design.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s ruling by a district court in The Hague concerned the rounded corners of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, and Galaxy Tab 7.7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to believe that Apple was not the first to design a tablet with a rectangular shape and rounded corners and that the origins of Apple&#8217;s registered design features can be found in numerous examples,&#8221; Samsung said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Samsung, the world&#8217;s top two smartphone makers, are locked in patent disputes in at least 10 countries as they vie to win customers for their latest gadgets in the lucrative mobile market.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Samsung news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Samsung dominates in global mobile phone sales\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/26608\/samsung-dominates-in-global-mobile-phone-sales\/\"><strong>Samsung dominates in global mobile phone sales<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Samsung SA shows off holiday wares\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/25483\/samsung-sa-shows-off-holiday-wares\/\"><strong>Samsung SA shows off holiday wares<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Samsung Galaxy smartphones propel quarterly profit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/23694\/samsung-galaxy-smartphones-propel-quarterly-profit\/\"><strong>Samsung Galaxy smartphones propel quarterly profit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Samsung pins $7.4 billion profit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/25166\/samsung-pins-7-4-billion-profit\/\"><strong>Samsung pins $7.4 billion profit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch court, citing previous decisions in British courts, has ruled that some Samsung Electronics Galaxy tablets do not infringe an Apple design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,2330,1184,52],"class_list":["post-30029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-galaxy","tag-galaxy-tab","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30045,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30029\/revisions\/30045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}