Omg Techies !

Apple has been granted a temporary suspension of a sales ban imposed on some iPhones and iPads in Germany.

Enforcing a December patent infringement ruling, Motorola on Friday 3 February forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store.

Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 were affected, but not the iPhone 4S. All 3G models of the iPad were involved, but not their Wi-Fi-only counterparts.

An appeals court later lifted the ban after Apple made a new licence payment offer, but patent lawyers believe the suspension may last only a few days or weeks, according to the BBC.

Apple said in a statement that it had appealed against the ban "because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry

The never ending patent war continues and today was another chapter where Apple’s patent violation claims were rejected by the US ITC. But this is just a preliminary ruling and the final ruling is yet to be made by the International Trade Commission.

Just a few months back Apple had filed a patent violation against Motorola with respect to touchscreen, multitouch and software installation, in a preliminary ruling ITC has discarded all the claims made by Apple after Motorola came back with with counter claims from it’s own camp. The preliminary ruling is of importance when it comes to the final ruling, so this decision play a major role. Let’s wait and see what happens from here.

Source - [ fonearena.com ]