US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose ruled out Apple Inc's request for a permanent injunction against Samsung smartphones in US on Monday.
Apple had asked Judge for a permanent sales ban against 26 mostly older Samsung phones.
However Judge Koh thought that Apple did not
provide enough evidence and it was not in public interest to remove all phones.
In his verdict Koh wrote, "Thought the phones do contain infringing features, phones at issue in this case contain a broad range of non-infringing features as well to which consumers would no longer have access if this court were to issue an injunction".
"Apple does have some interest in retaining certain features as exclusive to Apple, but the public interest does not support removing phones from the market when the infringing components constitute such limited parts of complex, multi-featured products."
"Weighing all of the factors, the court concludes that it does not follow that entire products must be forever banned from the market because they incorporate, among their myriad features, a few narrow protected functions," Koh added.
Apple had been awarded $1.05 billion in damages in August after a US jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the iPhone and iPad.
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