Samsung wins court case against Apple because it's 'not as cool'

A British judge on Monday ruled in favour of Samsung Electronics , saying Samsung's Galaxy tablets did not infringe Apple's iPad designs as they were "not as cool".

According to reports, in a Monday's high court ruling Judge Colin Birss said that Samsung's Galaxy tablets belonged to the same family as the Apple design when viewed from the front, but the Samsung products were "very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back".

He said that Samsung's Galaxy tablets do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design.

The victory for Samsung comes days after a US appeals court lifted a freeze on sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphones , although it upheld a lower court's decision to temporarily halt sales of its Galaxy 10.1 tablet.

Samsung and Apple are involved in legal battles in about 10 countries, accusing each other of patent infringement. Welcoming the British High Court judgement, Samsung said the ruling affirms its own intellectual property rights while respecting those of other companies.

With agency inputs