Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 will continue to miss out the American market, at least for the moment, as a U.S. court affirmed its earlier decision to ban the sale of the tablet pending the conclusion of the patent infringements case brought up by Apple against its South Korean nemesis.

The ruling was handed down as Samsung confirmed that it welcomes the assistance of Google in battling Apple's relentless efforts to stop the inflow of Samsung gadgets into key global markets, chief of them were the United States, Australia and a number of European nations.

According to Reuters, Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California rejected Samsung's plea to allow the sale of the Galaxy Tab, which Apple had described on its complaint as among the copycat products that the Asian firm has manufactured to compete with its bestselling iPads and iPhones.

The same court had earlier determined that Apple had presented valid arguments that support its assertion Samsung had misused technology to capitalise on the huge popularity of gadgets that the American firm had been producing in the past five years.

Judge Koh's new ruling is the latest in the string of legal setbacks that Samsung has been incurring since last week, with the same justice ordering last week prohibition on the sale of Galaxy Nexus in the U.S. market.

The smartphone was launched with Samsung collaborating with internet giant Google, which also developed the Android platform that powers the Galaxy product lines, tablet and smartphones, of Samsung.

Analyst said it is likely too that Judge Koh will deny a separate appeal by Samsung for the Galaxy Nexus to be sold in U.S. while the patent contest between the two giant tech firms rages on.

Yet to ensure that Samsung will not suffer undue losses because of the pre-trail injunctions on its products, the court ordered Apple to post bond of $US95.6 million, the placement of which will commence the official ban of the two Samsung products.

Reuters said Samsung can still bring its case before the Federal Appeals Court in Washington, DC, tagged by the news agency as the ultimate forum to settle disputes on intellectual property.

And Samsung can do so, analysts said, with the thought that Google will be supporting its legal efforts as reported this week by The Korea Times.

Citing an unidientifed Samsung source, the publication said that it received confirmation that Google will be actively involved in the legal tussle between Apple and Google, presumably owing to the fact that it has direct interest on the hit Galaxy flagship products, specifically that of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

But the extent of the two firms' legal partnership will not be detailed for now as the source told The Korea Times: "It's too early to comment on our game plan (with Google) in the legal battle."

The paper hinted though that part of Samsung's work with Google is to protect the company's patent rights on wireless connectivity technology, which it claimed was being illegally employed by Apple on its products.

"We will do our best to get more royalties from Apple, which has benefited from our technology," the newspaper quoted its source as saying.

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