Apple and Samsung devices banned in South Korea

Judge rules that Samsung and Apple have infringed IP and blocks sales of handsets and tablets.
Apple and Samsung have both been ordered to stop selling some smartphones and tablet computers in South Korea and pay damages after a court ruled they infringed each other's patents.
Although Samsung did not copy the design of the iPhone, the court ruled that it did infringe on an Apple patent related to the bounceback touchscreen feature that shows when a user has reached the end of a page.
Samsung was fined 25 million won ($22,000) and will be unable to sell its Galaxy SI and SII phones or the Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets.

Meanwhile, the court decided that Apple violated two Samsung wireless technology patents. Apple was ordered to pay Samsung 40 million won ($35,400) and has been banned from selling iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and both iPad and iPad 2 tablets in the country.

While this court ruling is important, it is small fry compared to the situation in the US, where Apple is demanding more than $2.5 billion in damages and an order to permanently ban Samsung from selling patent-infringing products.
Samsung argues Apple owes $422 million for violating a clutch of its patents.

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