AFP: Apple wins key German patent case against Samsung

DUESSELDORF, Germany — Apple won the latest battle in a global legal war with Samsung on Friday when a German court banned the Korean firm from selling a tablet computer in Germany, ruling it had copied the iPad. The court, in the western city of Duesseldorf, said Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 computer, a rival to Apple's iconic iPad, had infringed key patent laws. Presiding judge Johanna Brueckner-Hoffmann said there was a "clear...