On Wednesday, lawyers representing Samsung Electronics, in the company's ongoing patent-infringement lawsuit with Apple, petitioned the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California to suspend a recently-issued preliminary injunction blocking the US sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet.

In the latest filing of the papers - a move which came close on the heels of Judge Lucy Koh's Tuesday order banning of the US sales of the tablet -, Samsung has asked the court to suspend the preliminary injunction because an appeal in the case in pending.

The argument which Samsung put forth in its filing was that the injunction on a number of points - including the evidence provided by Apple against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 - is "seven months or older."

Samsung further added that usually such injunctions are granted to prevent potential damages from sales of the supposedly offending device, and said that such a situation does not exist in the wake of the fact that more current data was still pending from Apple.

Asserting that Samsung "has a strong likelihood of success on appeal given the Court's issuance of a preliminary injunction based on a stale record," the South Korean company said in its recent filing that the ban on the US sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1 "will cause Samsung significant harm due to impaired relationships with customers and carriers, while causing no demonstrable injury to Apple."