Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany

Posted by timothy on Friday February 24, 2012 @08:02PM from the fine-grained-patent-sniping dept.

New submitter elashish14 tips this news, snipped from Ars Technica: "Apple has been forced to disable push e-mail delivery for iCloud and MobileMe users in Germany this week. The move is thanks to a recent injunction awarded to Motorola as part of the ongoing patent dispute between the two smartphone makers.... The patent at issue relates to older pager designs, but Motorola was able to convince a German court that it applied to Apple's implementation of push e-mail that syncs across devices via iCloud. The injunction went into effect on Thursday of this week, requiring Apple to disable push e-mail syncing in Germany."

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In for trouble by mwvdlee · 2012-02-24 20:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Motorola better hope their old pagers didn't have any rounded corners, or they'll get retroactively sued for predicting future designs.

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Re:Truce by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-02-25 01:28 · Score: 4, Funny

What is the point? You , me and everyone here has "read" the verbose, archaic, purposely overdone and almost obfuscatory text of some patent or another.
Yeah, whenever I read any patent, it reminds me of the faux contract distributed with the amazing Guild of Thieves game by Magnetic Scrolls. :)

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