Hong Kong ( CNN ) -- A week after Samsung was ordered to pay $ 1 billion to Apple for patent infringements , a Japanese court has backed the South Korean company in another dispute with its U.S. rival . The Tokyo District Court on Friday ruled that Samsung did not infringe Apple 's patents for its iPhone and iPad for some of its Galaxy smartphones and the Galaxy tablet . The case focused on technology used in Samsung 's Galaxy S , Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Tab 7 devices to synchronize music and video with a computer -- technology Apple says its rival copied . However Judge Tamotsu Shoji disagreed and threw out Apple 's 100 million yen ( $ 1.27 million ) claim and ordered the California-based tech giant to pay the costs of the lawsuit . It has 30 days to file an appeal . Samsung to fight U.S. court ruling . In a statement released by Samsung after the decision , it said : `` We have been strongly appealing that our products do not infringe the patents of Apple U.S. and its completely different technology . `` The verdict recognizes the lawfulness of our company . We think it is very appropriate . '' A ruling against Samsung would have been a severe setback in one of its most lucrative markets . The South Korean company is already facing the prospect of a U.S. ban on Samsung smartphones and computer tablets found to have violated Apple 's patents -- described by one Samsung executive as `` absolutely the worst scenario for us . '' This followed last Friday 's decision by a U.S. federal jury to order Samsung to pay Apple $ 1.05 billion for copying the look and feel of the iPhone and iPad design . A nine-person jury spent just two and a half days puzzling out its final verdict , with weeks of notes and memories of testimony , 109 pages of jury instructions , and boxes of evidence including a collection of contested smartphones and tablets as their guide . The lawsuit was the largest yet in the ongoing worldwide patent brawl between the two companies , which itself is just one battle in Apple 's war against Google 's Android mobile operating system . In another case just days before , a South Korean court found that both parties had infringed on each other 's patents -- Samsung was ordered to pay $ 33,300 for infringing two of the intellectual property rights for Apple 's iPhone and iPad , while Apple was found to have infringed Samsung 's Wi-Fi technology and ordered to pay $ 22,000 in damages . CNN 's Yoko Wakatsuki and Kevin Voigt contributed to this report .
Tokyo court rules that Samsung did not infringe Apple 's patents for its iPhone and iPad . Comment: Samsung was last week ordered to pay $ 1B for copying look and feel of iPhone , iPad design . The two tech giants are locked in numerous patent disputes across the world .