Samsung has won a UK High Court box against Apple over the pattern of the firms' particular inscription computers.
Apple brought the box alleging that Samsung's Milky Way Tab 10 infringed the pattern of its iPad.
Judge Colin Birss disagreed adage Apple's designs were not being infringed since Samsung's Milky Way Tab was not as "cool" as the iPad.
As a result, he said, couple of would upset the two even even though they appeared outwardly similar.
"They do not have the same understated and impassioned ease that is hexed by the Apple design," mentioned Judge Birss.
"They are not as cool," he said. "The on the whole sense constructed is different."
The statute by Judge Birss means Apple cannot inhibit sales of the Milky Way Tab on the drift that it as well keenly resembles the iPad.
In a matter Samsung welcomed the statute and added: "Should Apple go on to make excessive authorised claims in other countries formed on such broad designs, enhancement in the attention could be spoiled and consumer selection unduly limited."
Apple declined to criticism especially on the UK box but, in a statement, steady its perspective that there was no "no coincidence" that Samsung's ultimate products resembled the iPhone and iPad.
It added: "This type of obvious duplicating is incorrect and, as we've mentioned many times before, you must be safeguard Apple's egghead properties when companies rob our ideas."
Apple right away has 21 days to allure against the judgement.
The preference is the ultimate in a array that have vanished against Apple. On 6 July a US justice carried a sales anathema on the Milky Way Nexus smartphones nonetheless it inspected a anathema on sales of the Milky Way 10.1 tablet.
Earlier in July, a UK justice ruled that Apple's patent casing a "slide to unlock" function could not be enforced against HTC.
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