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Reuters | By Dan Levine Posted: 06/29/2012 6:06 pm



SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday granted Apple Inc's request for a pre-trial injunction
against the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy Nexus phone, handing the iPhone maker its
second legal victory against Samsung in a week.

Apple and Samsung, the world's largest consumer electronics corporations, are waging legal war in several countries,
accusing each other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for mobile devices.

Friday's decision, by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, comes days after she also slapped a
pre-trial ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, a tablet computer that runs on Google Inc's Android and goes
toe-to-toe with the iPad.

Koh scheduled a hearing on Monday to consider whether to put the Galaxy Nexus injunction on hold pending appeal.
And she said in court that she might rule on Sunday whether or to similarly put on hold the earlier injunction on the
Galaxy Tab.

The back-to-back triumphs - significant because pre-trial injunctions are rarely granted - meant Apple had a better
week in court than last week, when Chicago federal court judge Richard Posner ruled the iPhone maker could not
pursue an injunction against Google's Motorola Mobility, effectively ending that case.