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To: Cogito who wrote (137245)	7/9/2012 2:30:34 PM
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 'Not As Cool' As Apple's iPad, Judge Rules - The Huffington Post Samsung Galaxy Tab 'Not As Cool' As Apple's iPad, Judge Rules In a ruling that is sure to be as controversial as Chief Justice Roberts' healthcare decision, a British judge overseeing a patent case between Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 found that shoppers would never confuse the two tablets because -- and these are the judge's words here -- Samsung tablets "are not as cool." Ouch. Bloomberg reports that Judge Colin Birss dismissed Apple's claims of patent infringement against Samsung on these grounds and that, in addition to being "not as cool," he ruled that Samsung's Galaxy tablets "do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design." Double ouch. Birss also found two distinctive features that satisfactorily differentiated the Galaxy Tab from the iPad: First, the Galaxy Tab is thinner than the iPad; and second, the Galaxy Tab had "unusual details" on the back that the iPad did not have. No word on whether one of these differentiating "unusual details" that the iPad does not have was the word "SAMSUNG" in all caps, but that may very well be one of them. This ruling does not mean that the Samsung-Apple patent infringement war is suddenly over -- oh no. Your tax dollars, you'll be happy to know, are still paying for cases in various stages of argument and appeal in Australia, Germany, and the United States. At the end of June, in fact, a U.S. judge banned sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in America; Samsung, of course, is appealing. Perhaps Samsung could point out how lame its tablets are, as declared by British law? For a few hours, however, Samsung can allow itself to weep over being placed in the burn book of noted "Mean Girls" fan Judge Colin Birss. Not cool, Judge Birss. Not cool. How similar do you think the Galaxy Tab is to the iPad? Take a look at the gallery (below), and tell us what you think in the comments.