This is great news for me as I’m an Apple fanboy. Now I can resume writing my manifesto: “Scenes from the class struggle in New Jersey” on my iPad.
Apple Inc. (AAPL:US) can continue selling its iPhone 4 and iPad 2 3G in the U.S. after receiving a reprieve from an import ban won by Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) in a patent-infringement dispute.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman today overturned the ban, imposed by the U.S. International Trade Commission on June 4 after it found that some older models of Apple devices infringed a patent for a way data are transmitted.
Froman said in a four-page ruling that after reviewing the commission’s decision and considering public policy implications of an import ban, “I have decided to disapprove the USITC’s determination to issue an exclusion order and cease and desist order in this investigation.”