German court dismisses Motorola patent lawsuit against Apple

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On Friday, the Mannheim Regional Court of Germany announced that Motorola’s patent lawsuit against Apple had been dismissed. The patent in question was considered essential to the 3G/UMTS wireless telecommunications standard and was used as a “method and system for generating a complex pseudonoise sequence for processing a code division multiple access [CDMA] signal.” Judge Andreas Voss claimed that Motorola failed to present conclusive evidence that Apple infringed upon its patent, however, according to <em>FOSS Patents</em>. Rather than demonstrating Apple’s infringement, Motorola argued that any implementation of 3G/UMTS must then inevitably infringe on the company’s invention. Last December, the manufacturer <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/09/sales-of-apples-iphone-ipad-banned-by-german-court/">won an injunction against the Cupertino-based company</a> to ban the sales of iPhones and iPads. The ruling was upheld earlier this month and <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/03/iphones-ipad-3g-pulled-from-online-apple-store-in-germany-following-ban/">Apple’s devices were temporarily pulled from shelves</a>, before <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/03/ban-on-iphones-and-ipad-suspended-in-germany-sales-resume/">returning soon after</a>.<span id="more-126543"></span>

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