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German Court Grants Motorola Xbox and Windows 7 Sales Ban

Posted by Unknown on from the google-subsidiaries-may-do-infinte-evil dept.

First time accepted submitter Celexi writes "In a surprising move, Motorola Mobility (which is to be taken over by Google), has won an injunction preventing the distribution of Windows 7 and the Xbox in Germany until Microsoft starts paying royalty fees for the patents Microsoft is said to be infringing (two patents used to display H.264 video). The ruling is suspended as of now because of a restraining order, the effect in the rest of the EU and U.S. if the ban is enforced if the restraining order is lifted, is unclear." This could go into effect as soon as May 7th, pending the result of the next U.S. case hearing.

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  1. Doesn't mean jack by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously, ponder for a moment what would happen if Nebraska decided to ban MS products. Well? Right. People from Nebraska wanting MS products will buy them outside Nebraska.

    It's not much different for the EU.

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  2. What I want to know is... by jonwil · · Score: 3, Interesting

    how a court ruling in a US court has any bearing on the German legal system and why the German legal system (and whichever authorities are responsible for enforcing the decision by the German judge) has to even care what the US court said and cant just say "screw the US, we are going to enforce the ban starting right now"

    Or is there some sort of international treaty that applies here?