Ondrej Holzman Apple obeyed ordinance in a British court and corrected a statement claiming that Samsung did not copy its patented iPad design. The original apology was, according to the judges, inaccurate and misleading.
On the main page of Apple's UK website, there is now not only a link to the full statement, but three more sentences in which the Californian company says that the original message was inaccurate. The text of the statement itself is more or less just a crossed-out first version. Newly, Apple no longer cites the judge's statements, nor does it mention the results of the lawsuits in Germany and the US.
In addition to the website, Apple also had to publish a statement about not copying Samsung in several British newspapers. Paradoxically, the edited text got there before the website, because Apple was apparently still figuring out how to circumvent the court order in a certain way. In the end, it turned out that Apple embedded Javascript into its main page, which ensures that no matter what order you view its page, you will never see the apology message unless you scroll down. This is because the image with the iPad mini is automatically enlarged.
The wording of the revised statement below:
On 9 July 2012, the High Court of England and Wales ruled that Samsung's Galaxy Tablets, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 8.9 and Tab 7.7, do not infringe Apple's design patent No. 0000181607–0001. A copy of the entire High Court judgment file is available at the following link www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2012/1882.html.
This judgment is valid throughout the European Union and was upheld by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales on 18 October 2012. A copy of the Court of Appeal judgment is available at www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html. There is no injunction against a patented design throughout Europe.
This is how Apple's website worked before the apology was published.