A London court granted Apple’s request to postpone an order given earlier this month requiring Apple to post a public notice on their U.K. website and several British newspapers that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets do not infringe on Apple’s iPad design patents.
Last month, Judge Colin Birss issued an order that required Apple to post the notice that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets do not infringe on the iPad’s design patents. This was based on the Judge’s considered opinion that the Galaxy Tab just wasn’t as cool as an iPad. The notice itself was to link from the home page of all European websites for an entire year, and be published in Financial Times, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, Mobile Magazine, and T3 magazine.
The reprieve will remain in effect until October, when Apple will be able to request an appeal to the decision in a British courtroom.
Judge Birss had handed down specifications about the ads. Font size would be no smaller than Arial 14, and the page placement of the ads would have to be before page 6.
With the postponement, Apple will have a chance to convince the court in the fall that it shouldn’t have to buy ad space to, as in the words of one Apple rep, “advertise for Samsung.”
