Apple and Microsoft are attempting to get a
injunction lifted in Germany. The injunction is for automotive push
notification coming from a cloud source. Apple had to stop this on their German
products for services that used any automatic push notification like their
icalendar, iemail and other data. This only applies to programs that are automatically
updated and not ones that need to activated periodically.
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The author thinks that the injunction will come to
an end very soon. This will most likely happen through Apple and Microsoft filling
a nullity, making the injunction invalid in the Germen Federal Patent Court.
Another reason for the author’s speculation is that the court expressed doubt
about the validity of the patent. If Google loses then they will need to pay
Apple for holding a improper injunction. This is really sad for Android as this
is the only injunction they are holding in the world and it is about to crumble
down. While Apple and Microsoft have injunctions on Google or at least have
accomplished some offensive litigation victories.
I can't believe you can actually patent something so seemingly simple as push notifications. I guess back when it was patented it really was innovative, because now it seems so commonplace.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of wired that almost all the cases we are seeing these several weeks are from Germany court. I think Apple went crazy by suing so many other companies using the simple patent.
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