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Apple Has Already Beat Motorola’s German Injunction Against iPhones And iPad Sales

slashgearYou know that so-called “permanent injunction” Motorola got against Apple that resulted in Apple pulling all iPhones and iPads short of the iPhone 4S off their online store earlier today? Already overruled, and Germans can once again get their iPhone and iPad on. Slashgear...

iPhone patent wars: What’s going on in Germany?

Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail

Yanked from the virtual shelves

It was a crazy day for Apple (AAPL) in Germany.

First it removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its German online store -- the first time, as far as we know, that the company has been forced...

iPhone patent wars: What’s going on in Germany?

Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail

Yanked from the virtual shelves

UPDATE: Sales of Apple's iPhones resumed Friday. See here.

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It was a crazy day for Apple (AAPL) in Germany.

First it removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its German online store -- the first time,...

Motorola deals Apple pair of upsets in German legal battle (updated)

On Friday, Motorola was granted a permanent injunction by a German court against a feature of Apple's iCloud. The same day Apple removed some older models of iPhones and iPads from its German online store due to enforcement of another patent held by Motorola.

Apple researching social fitness tech sporting real-time sharing of performance data for competitive workouts

In the future, hitting the gym along with your iPhone-toting pals could spur competitiveness in ways unlike ever before. Apple’s mobile devices run a variety of fitness apps and third parties provide useful accessories ranging from casual jogging to some serious working out. Not content with resting on its laurels, Apple is looking to ratchet...

Apple ban on original Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 stands in Germany

Apple achieved a quasi-victory today in the ongoing intellectual property battles with Samsung when an appeals court in Dusseldorf, Germany upheld Apple's requested preliminary ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. The court's decision also covers the Galaxy Ta...

Apple gets a break as EU antitrust watchdog launches full-blown probe into Samsung over essential 3G patents

European Union regulators today announced the launch of a formal investigation of Samsung over mobile patents to determine whether the South Korean conglomerate breached EU antitrust rules in its legal dealings with competitors. The investigation is focused on so-called FRAND patents, a common rule that stipulates a patent applying to the standard must be adopted on “fair, reasonable,...

Samsung’s second German 3G patent lawsuit against Apple dismissed

Samsung suffered another reversal in its patent battle with Apple on Friday morning, as the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany dismissed the Korean company's second patent complaint related to 3G/UMTS technology. Last week, the same court rejected another similar Samsung complaint about 3G tech.

German Court Rejects Samsung 3G Claims Against Apple’s iPhone

A German court Friday threw out Samsung’s patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple. The South Korean smartphone maker had claimed the iPhone maker violated a patent related to 3G wireless communications. Samsung had filed seven patent violation claims against Apple in Germany. The intriguing aspect of...

Does Siri infringe old Excite patents?

Shawn Carolan of Menlo Ventures, an investor in Siri Inc., prior to Apple acquiring the company, recently sat down on Bloomberg to discuss the technology. Apart from talking about the initial demo that attracted him to the investment and meeting Siri Co-Founder Norman Winarsky, Bloomberg host Cory Johnson pressed him on exactly how Siri is able to...

Kodak Sues Apple And HTC For Violating Digital Imaging Patents

Kodak-Sues-Apple-2Eastman Kodak has announced its plans to sue Apple and HTC for violating several of its patents relating to digital imaging. The once-profitable camera company claims that Apple’s iOS devices and HTC’s smartphones infringe on Kodak patents for transmitting images digitally and between devices....

Why Apple is in no hurry to settle its iPhone patent suits

New analysis suggests the payoff could be seven fold greater if it holds out for a win

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In a note to clients issued Monday, Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore lists four possible outcomes of the patent wars being fought in courts around the world between Apple (AAPL) and the Google (GOOG) Android ecosystem:

1) settlement with...