Apple Faces Temporary iPhone, iPad Ban In Germany

An anonymous reader writes "A regional court has temporarily banned Apple from marketing or supplying iPhones and iPads in Germany, following a suit brought about by Motorola. However, Apple said that the judgement 'does not affect our ability to do business or sell products in Germany at this time.' This may have something to do with the respondent in the case being Apple Inc, the US parent company, and not Apple GmbH, the company's local subsidiary."

Comments

And this is a bad thing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, the fewer of these iProducts we have out there, the more intelligent as a society we will be.

Re:And this is a bad thing?

[andreicristianpetcu]

Screw patents. I wish Apple would shake hands with Google and give up patents. They are silly and waste time that can go in development and in designing better products. Samsung is dodging patents like in the matrix! This is not productive.

Re:And this is a bad thing?

[Kartu]

How about "think at all"? Amount of FUD surrounding Apple or Apple vs Anything is depressing.

The litigation morass

[Rambo Tribble]

Apple is faced with the prospect of "live by the sword, die by the sword".

Re:Google's proxy wars

[JavaBear]

Google may call for patent reform, but till then they have no choice but to play the game along with the others, whether they like it or not.
They have to be able to do business, and when Apple is getting increasingly aggressive now that their iStuff business is threatened by other corporations using the same technologies as those implemented (but rarely invented) by Apple.

I'm seeing a strong correlation between SCO and Apple these days, and I do hope for Apple that they know when to call it quits.

Re:There's some saying...

[ZackSchil]

Yes, Apple really made their bed by getting sued by Motorola in October 2010.

Re:Google's proxy wars

[tverbeek]

Google is not the villain... nor the victim. Neither is Apple, or any other of the combatants in the Patent Wars. Unfortunately, patent law doesn't allow someone to stay out of it... which is one of the ways in which it has become Evil.

It would serve Apple right

[walterbyrd]

Apple used to be a great company. Now, Apple is just a patent parasite. If iProducts are banned, Apple will only have themselves to blame. You can blame other companies for defending themselves against an aggressive scammer, like Apple.

Re:It would serve Apple right

[Telvin_3d]

I'd object to the description 'patent parasite'.
Assholes, jerks and many other derogatory terms may be appropriate, but 'patent parasite' implies that they are leaching off others. Instead they are the ones pushing the market in every way, but using patents to stop others from following the same strategies. It's not nice, and it's not healthy for competition, but it's also not parasitic.

Re:Google's proxy wars

[walterbyrd]

Google certainly is the victim. Google has had their products banned because of Apple's aggressive patent scamming.

You cannot blame Google for trying to defend itself against a patent extortionist like Apple.

These scam lawsuits are 100% Apple’s fault. Google, HTC, Motorola, never wanted this.

Yes. Really.

[Anonymous Coward]

Because there's a shitload of twofaced when it comes to Apple products. The fanbois brains turn off in the presence of the Next Apple Thing (or is that iThing?). Therefore without the next Apple thing, they will have operating brains for more time.

Increasing the average intelligence of the world.