Apple forced to stop selling iPhones and iPads in Germany over row about patents

February 4th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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Leon Watson

Last updated at 10:46 PM on 3rd February 2012

Apple was temporarily told to remove the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 from sale in Germany today after a court row broke out with rival Motorola.

The technology giant was told this morning it had to stop selling the products on its online store because of an on-going patent issue.

Motorola and Apple are quarreling over the licence relating to the products’ GPRS module, and the court said no more could be sold until the dispute was resolved.

The iPad 2 was at the centre of a patent row between Apple and Motorola over its GPRS module

Apple duly removed the smartphone and tablet as requested. The iPhone 4S, which uses a Qualcomm chip, was exempt from the ban.

But following an appeal by Apple’s lawyers, the injunction was suspended and Apple put the products back up on sale.

Shortly after the appeal result, Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said: ‘All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple’s online store in Germany shortly.

‘Apple appealed this ruling because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ago.’

Huguet also commented on a separate Motorola case, one in which the rival has asserted Apple is violating their patent that covers the push e-mail capability of iCloud and its predecessor, the MobileMe service.

Apple lost the first round in this battle, with the German court ruling in favor of Motorola on Friday morning.

The Apple iPhone 4 was also temporarily banned, but the 4S model was not

But Huguet said should Motorola prevail in the appeals process, subscribers to Apple’s service would still be able to receive their email, just not have it pushed to their devices.

According to Huguet, the courts have not yet served Apple with an injunction to stop that service in the German market, and so push notifications will continue.

Huguet said: ‘Apple believes this old pager patent is invalid and we’re appealing the courts decision.’

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Did you know that the WIFI component is owned and invented by the CSRIO in Australia, so apple may talk with regards to patent infringements.

– MIk, Melbourne, Australia, 04/2/2012 11:31

This is what happens when big bully companies like Apple go around suing everyone and everything they can. What goes around comes around.

– Miserable Taxpayer, London, 04/2/2012 10:16

After all the specious court cases Apple has launched over so called patents its nice to see their comeuppance being on the other side of the fence for once. Its right that blatant copying of innovative design should be copy righted BUT Apple have taken themselves to try and copyright a complete product idea in a way which would have allowed Henry Ford to be the only manufacturers of Cars or an Apple computer to be the only computer in the world.
Its obvious to every one but Apple lawyers that the use of and method of use of any similar product to theirs will be inherently the same but still they try and copy right it. Even a knife and fork would have been copyright by Apple which is ridiculous. If nothing else, I hope Motorola win this case and Apple have to pay their dues for stealing IP from others !

– mike, alicante, 04/2/2012 09:14

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