Samsung won a court order rescinding a ban on US sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. US District Judge Lucy Koh in California issued the order after a federal appeals court gave her jurisdiction over the matter, Bloomberg reports. Koh had imposed the temporary sales ban in June, before a patent-infringement trial in August between Apple and Samsung that ended with a USD 1.05 billion jury verdict for the iPhone maker. The jury found that Samsung didn't infringe a design patent that had been the basis for the Tab 10.1 sales ban. "The court agrees with Samsung that the sole basis for the June 26 preliminary injunction was the court's finding that that Samsung likely infringed" the design patent at issue in the lawsuit, Koh wrote in the order. "The jury has found otherwise. Thus, the sole basis for the June 26 preliminary injunction no longer exists." Apple contended the ban should remain in place because the jury found the Galaxy Tab infringed other patents at issue in the case.
