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German Court Issues Injunction Against iPhone & iPad
angry tapir writes "A German court has ruled that Apple's iPhone and iPad devices infringe a Motorola patent and issued an injunction against sales of the products in Germany, in the latest move in a long series of legal battles between the companies. It's the latest stage in the international patent conflict that's been raging over mobile devices, which has included the recent Samsung victory over Apple in an Australian court and a defeat for Samsung in a Dutch court."
Slammed ...
Even better considering that apple was caught flogging off their patents to a patent troll, hoping to hurt as many "competitors" as possible.
Every article written will hopefully include all the stories together to paint the apple darling in a new light.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/09/apple-made-a-deal-with-the-devil-no-worse-a-patent-troll/
the article is idiocy and so is your comment.
We have the fact that apple already tried to sue Motorola over the xoom. This is just the response, which was done well before google acquired motorola.
The "Google" Action will be if/what we see from google as a result of this reflecting on them going forward, which could be entirely nothing.
It's obvious to anyone with common sense viewing Samsung's designs that Samsung is deliberately aping Apple's designs.
oh yes because this design of Samsung's from 2006, before the ipad, looks nothing like this, you'd have to be an idiot to think those look the same wouldn't you :P
"Patent troll" usually means "non-practicing entity", not "anyone who sues on patent grounds".
Like, you know, that Digitude Innovation who recently got some patents from Apple to sue everyone with.
Unlike Motorola, who got sued for Xoom, and now sues Apple in retaliation.
> the AND part means that Apple, if they were to licence it, should pay exactly the same amount as HTC, Nokia, etc.
Basically, what happened is this: Motorola found out Apple has not licensed this patent. As this is a FRAND patent, Apple could avoid the suit if they tried to negotiate a fair deal to license the patent.
Apple said "OK, but you can't sue us for damages from past infringement, we're gonna pay same rate for past".
Motorola said "Na-ah" and went to court.
Judge said "You've got caught infringing, so it's fair to demand extra for the time when you was breaking the law" and decided that was not a fair deal, so FRAND defense didn't work.