A UK judge has ordered Apple to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad with its Galaxy Tab tablet, according to the Bloomberg news agency. The Judge added that a notice should remain on Apple's website for at least six months, while other adverts should be placed in various newspapers and magazines.

The latest ruling follows the US company's failed attempt to block sales of the South Korean firm's Galaxy Tab tablets.

Apple has not commented on the news.

In July 9, the British judge had also ruled that Samsung's tablets "do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design," and they were not "as cool," producing a different overtall impression.

However, the judge refused Samsung's request that Apple was forbidden from restating its claim that its design rights had been infringed.