S&P 500
7,507.80
-0.22%
Dow Jones
51,595.40
-0.32%
Nasdaq 100
30,411.80
-0.23%
Russell 2000
2,975.48
-0.09%
FTSE 100
10,384.80
-0.34%
Nikkei 225
71,987.20
+0.02%

Investing

Apple Loses German Court Fight To Motorola

Photo of Douglas A. McIntyre
By Douglas A. McIntyre Published

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

According to Bloomberg

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

Follow 24/7 Wall St. on Google
Photo of Douglas A. McIntyre
About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

Featured Reads

Our top personal finance-related articles today. Your wallet will thank you later.

The $2.3 Million 401(k) Tax Trap: Why Maxing Out Costs You $64,000 in Retirement
Marc Guberti |

The $2.3 Million 401(k) Tax Trap: Why Maxing Out Costs You $64,000 in Retirement
Bernie Sanders vs. Elon Musk: Would Taxing the Rich Actually Save Social Security?
Michael Williams |

Bernie Sanders vs. Elon Musk: Would Taxing the Rich Actually Save Social Security?

Continue Reading

Paul Ausick |

Motorola Gets Favorable Patent Ruling Against Apple (MMI, GOOG, AAPL)

The US International Trade Commission (ITC) today ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE: MMI) — soon to…

Douglas A. McIntyre |

The Smartphone Business Loses Its Luster

The smartphone business was among the most attractive in the tech world until recently. That was before Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)…

Douglas A. McIntyre |

A New Age of Patent Lending

Asia-based smartphone company HTC is locked in several patent battles with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has offered aid…

Paul Ausick |

Google Works Around Smartphone Trade Ban; Apple Gets Another Wide-Ranging Patent

In May the International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that certain Motorola Mobility smartphones could not be imported into the United…

Paul Ausick |

Apple Wins German Court Ruling over Google

A court in Munich has ruled that a patent on the so-called “rubber band” smartphone feature belongs to Apple Inc.…

Douglas A. McIntyre |

Apple Wants To Sue Kodak

Apple wants to sue Kodak over patent infringement. Since Kodak is in Chapter 11, Apple has to ask the court…

Douglas A. McIntyre |

Motorola Wins One Round In Patent Fight With Apple

Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI), soon to be bought by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), reported that it has won a preliminary round against…

Jon C. Ogg |

Samsung Propped Up by Smartphone Shipments (AAPL, NOK, RIMM, SSNLF, GOOG, MMI)

In the third quarter of 2011, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shipped about 20 million iPhones, a quarter-over-quarter increase of about…

Douglas A. McIntyre |

Samsung Rules as Global Smartphones Slow

Recently, two trends have marked the global smartphone industry. Sales increases have slowed, and Samsung Electronics Co. has moved into an…

Top Gaining Stocks

CarMax
KMX • Vol: 7,330,419
Corning
GLW • Vol: 22,800,969
Intel
INTC • Vol: 233,719,006
Super Micro Computer
SMCI • Vol: 68,465,534
Enphase Energy
ENPH • Vol: 13,978,376

Top Losing Stocks

Accenture
ACN • Vol: 41,744,333
EPAM Systems
EPAM • Vol: 5,636,587
Cognizant
CTSH • Vol: 61,311,400
Coterra Energy
CTRA • Vol: 73,319,495
Kroger
KR • Vol: 26,704,230