Samsung plans to launch its 10.1 Galaxy Tab in Australia on Friday, an Apple lawyer told Australian Federal Court Judge Annabelle Bennett.

The tablet is covered by a prohibition by a German court order of sales in Germany and Australia

On the first week of September, Ms Bennett ordered Apple to present evidence to justify the injunction the company sought on the Galaxy Tab launch in Australia, particularly Apple's claim that its iPad table sales have been hurt by Galaxy tablet computer sales.

The alleged launch is expected to worsen the patent war between Samsung and Apple because of the impact of the South Korean technology firm into the American technology giant's sales of smartphones.

Reports said global sales of Samsung's Galaxy S II models have reached 10 million since the company launched the Android phone in April.

Sales in Korea were the highest at 3.6 million phones, followed by 3.4 million in Europe and 2.3 million in the rest of Asia. Galaxy S II sales doubled two months after it hit the five million mark in July, Samsung disclosed.

Rival Apple has sold 14 million Galaxy S II smartphones since its roll out in June 2010.

Apple claimed that in different lawsuits filed in several countries that Samsung copied its iPhone and iPad 2 design and features.

"They continued claiming Samsung's strategy appears to be one where they are aware of Apple patents and launch products breaching them anyway. And if caught they try to work around it as they have done with their so-called Australian version of their Galaxy Tab," Smarthouse quoted Apple's legal counsel.

The Apple lawyer said that Samsung Australia initially planned to launch the company's version of 10.1 Galaxy Tab in the U.S., but Apple contested which led the South Korean firm to develop the Australian edition of the computer tablet.

Samsung lawyers said the company had removed one of the four patents contested by Apple, particularly the zoom feature of the Galaxy Tab.

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