A US federal judge said she will issue rulings aimed at resolving a multifaceted legal battle between Apple and Samsung Electronics, urging the world’s largest smartphone makers to settle their differences.

Apple has given a US judge a list of eight Samsung Electronics products it wants pulled from shelves and banned from the US market.

After a year of scorched-earth litigation, a US jury decided that Samsung ripped off the innovative technology used by Apple to create its revolutionary iPhone and iPad.

The multi-billion pound patent trial involving the world’s biggest smartphone companies, Apple and Samsung, is about to go to a US jury in an epic struggle over the wildly popular iPhone.

Samsung faced two options to compete in the booming mobile phone market after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to critical acclaim in 2007 — innovate or copy, an Apple lawyer told a US court yesterday.

Bitter rival Samsung faced two options to compete in the booming mobile phone market after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to critical acclaim in 2007 - innovate or copy, an Apple lawyer told a US court.

A US judge has ordered Samsung to halt sales of its Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer while the court considers Apple’s claim that the South Korean tech giant illegally copied the design of the popular iPad.