In a bizarre turn of fortunes, a UK judge has ordered Apple to run 'advertisements' declaring that Samsung did not copy the design of iPad.

The ruling comes after Apple failed to convince Birss that Samsung had ripped off iPad for the design of its own tablet line.

The ads, which a draft copy of the order dictates will appear in Financial Times, the Daily Mail, Guardian Mobile magazine, and T3, must specifically reference the court case, and clear up any 'impression' that Samsung has copied Apple's designs.

Samsung's lawyer Kathryn Pickard argues that the legal bombardment from Apple has "caused real commercial harm." Ironically, Birss said in his ruling that Samsung's tablets were unlikely to be confused for iPads because they're "not as cool."

In a statement following the ruling, Samsung said, "Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims based on such generic designs, innovation in the industry could be harmed and consumer choice unduly limited."

Seems like the sort of thing you would normally see on April Fools Day.

Anything that hurts (or at least annoys) Apple a bit is a good thing to me - they're getting so large, it's scary

O.o that gave me a laugh.

it won't happen. Apple will just re start the case anyway.
Im an Apple fan boy and i can say right now.. yes. the Galexy Tabs are copying Apple as Tablets where a dead platform before the iPad. without the iPad and its eco-system (that Android has compeatly ripped off) Tablets would still mean nothing.

Apple fan boys are by far the funniest fan boys on the planet... sometimes I feel sorry for them...

On topic, this would be funny

I hate Apple with a passion so I find this to be quite amusing.

Yes and Henry Ford copied the car.

Its called innovation. You take an idea and you tweak/improve/make worse whatever. This is why our patent system is so flawed when it comes to technology.

None of the Android prodcuts are copies of iCrap. They are a variation of the idea behind the device. Some for the better some for the worse.

I hope that pretty soon all judges get fed up with Apple and its war against innovation and throw every single item out of court.

It happens in all markets and all products. That's how innovation works and its how we get better shit every year.

You like multitask, notifications, an eventual 7" iPad, etc... well you can thank Apple for copying Android OEMs/Google. They all do it and Apple fought (and lost) this same court room war against MS in the early days of PCs.

sounds good to me. They should not pursue cases like this and perhaps this will make them think twice.

Anything that shrinks Apple's ego down a notch is fine by me.