Apple Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Samsung

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We just heard yesterday about how Samsung’s trying a unique defense–the sci-fi defense, you might call it–via our own Chris Smith. But on another front, Samsung just got dealt a pretty healthy setback in the form of a preliminary injunction against selling the Galaxy S, the Galaxy S II and the Ace phone in large swathes of Europe.

What’s interesting here is that now it’s just the phones taking the ban; the Samsung Galaxy Tab, at least for now, is still able to be sold having overcome a previous injunction in a German court.

And in a note of good news for Samsung, turns out there are reportedly chunks of Europe where Apple hasn’t completed its patent process, meaning that Samsung is welcome to take its line into those countries; the list, for those Europeans who want to get their hands on a Samsung device, includes Italy, Spain and Greece.

And tomorrow, at last report, Apple and Samsung will be back in European courtrooms to revisit the tablet issue, so if you’re looking for a Galaxy Tab you may want to pick one up up before it’s too late, unless of course the 2001 defense actually holds up. I personally hope it does; frankly, I think Apple’s been getting a little heavy-handed with the intellectual property law of late, so seeing them get pulled back just a bit would be welcome lest we get a complete stifling of innovation for fear of the heavily-financed Apple legal machine landing on people’s throats with both feet.

Still though, the end result of all this is still some time out, so we’ll have to keep an eye on it all to see how it all boils out. But what about you guys? Will you be picking up a Samsung device, possibly ahead of its unexpected exit of the market? Or will you bide your time and see if maybe you’ll be able to get them on clearance because they’ll be sitting on a pile of unsold models? Either way, we want to hear from you, so head on down to the comments section and tell us what you think!