Apple has filed a new lawsuit against Samsung Electronics at the district court in Dusseldorf, aiming at 10 models in its Galaxy family of smartphones. According to the court's spokesman Peter Schutz, Apple claims that Samsung's products look too much like its own offerings. Apple has also combined its filings against Samsung's tablets into one case, he added.

The court blocked German sales of the original version of Samsung's 10-inch tablet in September last year, after Apple argued that Samsung's product looked too much like the iPad. To circumvent that ruling, Samsung modified the appearance of the tablet to create the Galaxy Tab 10.1N.

The smartphone case will come before the court in August and the case against Samsung's tablets will follow in September.