Re:Apple posts revised Samsung statement
by michaelhoffman on Saturday November 03, 2012 @11:28AM
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When a court says something is "final" that means that it will not be revisited at that level. It does not mean you can't appeal. However, you can only appeal to the UK Supreme Court if you get permission from the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, and I doubt this is the sort of thing where such permission will be forthcoming.
The EU is not one country and does not have a unified judicial system like in the U.S. The decisions of the Court of Appeals of England and Wales (not the UK) have little precedential value in Germany and vice versa.
BTW: The statement text is verbatim what the court suggested in http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html (para 87)
The judgement says it's a final determination which I assume means it can't be appealed. But I don't get that impression from the statement, I guess because I'm not familiar with the appeals hierarchy of the EU. It seems the UK Court of Appeal superior to German courts.