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It included trade dress[0] claims.

  > Trade dress protection is intended to protect consumers from 
  > packaging or appearance of products that are designed to
  > imitate other products; to prevent a consumer from buying
  > one product under the belief that it is another.
In some cases Samsung's lawyers's couldn't tell Samsung devices apart from Apple's devices[1].

  [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress
  [1] http://variado.net/mobil/?p=27157


At a ten feet distance.

Do you seriously believe that anyone actually bought a Galaxy Tab by mistake, thinking it was an iPad?




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