Samsung appealed the order before the Federal Circuit and asked it for a stay of the injunction pending appeal. To prevail "a movant must establish a strong likelihood of success on the merits or, failing that, must demonstrate that it has a substantial case on the merits and that the harm factors militate in its favor," the court said.

The company was not immediately available for comment on the order.

A court in the U.K. has taken a different view on the alleged similarities between the iPad and Samsung's Galaxy tablets. The tablets including the Galaxy Tab 10.1 do not infringe on a registered Apple design because "they are not as cool" and the Galaxy Tablets "do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design," Judge Colin Birss

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