Apple continues to win a few and lose a few as it fights to hold its lead in the smartphone and tablet businesses. One of its advantages has been it cloud computing platform which allows customers to access data from all over the world. The other is its patent portfolio which it has used off and on to block sales of rival products from firms like Samsung
Now Apple is on the receiving end of a patent ruling in Germany which will block the use of its cloud product
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. won a second German patent ruling against Apple Inc. over its iCloud service allowing the company to block sales of devices with access to it.
The Mannheim Regional Court found Apple infringed a patent used to synchronize e-mail accounts. The ruling also allows Motorola Mobility to ask Apple for information about past sales and holds Apple liable for damages, Presiding Judge Andreas Voss said in delivering the ruling.
Motorola will soon be part of Google, so the IP war between the search engine and the iPhone, PC, and smartphone firms is likely to become more violent
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