Battle of the tablet Titans

I stumbled upon a news story on Reuters about an intriguing judgement made by a British Judge ordering Apple to run ads with the quite unusual slogan, “Samsung didn’t copy the iPad”! We knew Apple and Samsung had locked horns over patent issues and were fighting in a global scale, and this new judgement adds some spice to that while changing the status quo of the game. Few months ago, an Australian court ordered and later lifted a ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab sales there, due to a legal proceeding initiated by Apple. These claims and counter claims for trivial patents including colours (Apple actually has a patent for the white colour as I heard from one of my friends), has gone too far according to tech experts and critics. While real intellectual property should be safeguarded from infringement, in a way this judgement can be used as a Judicial precedent to avoid future clashes over trivial matters that impede technological development.