What is at stake in the battle over tablet computers?

5 September 2011 Last updated at 07:32 ET Help

Samsung Electronics will not promote its new tablet computer at one of the world's largest electronics shows after sales of the product were blocked in Germany in a long-running copyright dispute.

The new Galaxy Tab 7.7 was pulled out of the IFA electronics fair in Berlin.

On Friday a Düsseldorf court granted a request from Apple to ban Samsung from selling the product in Germany.

The two rivals are locked in a global patent war over their smartphone and tablet products, as the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones explains.

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