In a setback for Google and another win for
Apple, a German court has found Google-owned IT company Motorola guilty of infringing Apple patents on the design of smartphones and tablets, a
court spokesman said on Thursday.
The court ordered Motorola to pay a
yet-to-be-specified fine and pull the infringing devices, from the market.
This particular patent involves a feature known as
"overscroll bounce" or "rubber-banding" that pulls a
written text or image back to the centre of the screen to signify to the user
that the end of a list or menu has been completed. Motorola had won a similar
patent case in western Germany last July and has one month to appeal the
decision.
It would be
interesting to see, what would be the outcome of the appeal. On the other hand
for Apple, it has been a winning spree, till now. In August, a California court
decided in favour of Apple in a patent case against Samsung, awarding the iPhone maker about one billion
dollars in damages.
The
case is just one of many patent battles that technology companies have waged
worldwide, but especially in Germany where patent protection laws are
particularly strict. This case
might just give Apple, the required boost to sell its latest IPhone, which has
got a mixed review.
Contributed by
Abhishek Kukreti
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