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German iOS device owners will be without push notifications for anextended period of time as a German court denied Apple's appeal tohalt a Motorola ban on the service used by iCloud and MobileMe. A spokeswoman for the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court, whichhandles appeals for the circuit within which the Mannheim RegionalCourt belongs, confirmed on Friday that an Apples attempt to suspend the injunction imposedby Motorola had been denied on Wednesday, reports FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller. "We are pleased with [Wednesday's] ruling in Germany denyingApple's motion to stay the injunction related to our push emailpatent. We will continue to protect our intellectual property,"Motorola said in a statement. Apple's German push notification stoppage was the direct result ofa Motorola court case regarding data pushing technology, and wasfirst revealed in a support document posted to the company's website. Thetelecommunications giant won the injunction in early February, though chose not to leverage the ruling untillater that month presumably due to deliberation over whether topost the 100 million euro bond required to enforce the ban. Motorola first filed the patent complaint at the Mannheim RegionalCourt in April, 2011, and Judge Andreas Voss subsequently handeddown the "preliminarily enforceable" ruling in favor of the RAZRmaker. Push technology allows users to receive email and notificationsinstantly without having to "pull" the data from a server. Thesystem was popularized by Research in Motion's BlackBerry platform,with Apple adding the service to MobileMe and subsequently iCloud. Wednesday's decision to uphold the injunction means that GermaniCloud or MobileMe users could be without push notifications for ayear or more as the issue moves through the appeals process. iOSdevices are only affected within the confines of Germany, andregain push functionality once outside the country's borders. Certain workarounds like timed retrieval of messages can serve as astop-gap until Apple either wins an appeal or comes to an agreementwith Motorola. Apple has the option to appeal again, though it is likely that thecompany has presented all arguments and will have to wait and seeif other ongoing cases against Motorola bring new cause for areexamination of the case. As the two companies continue theirGerman patent battle, it is unclear what effect the appeal denialwill have on future proceedings regarding certain FRAND patentsthat apply to wireless technology. Apple recently won two key injunctions against Motorola, oneregarding a photo gallery patent and another over a handset's slide-to-unlock mechanism. With Google's takeover of Motorola Mobility looming, Germany hasbecome an important battleground for the overarching iOS versusAndroid patent war. I am an expert from zxledtech.com, while we provides the quality product, such as High Bay Light Fixture , Outdoor Flood Light Fixture, Flat Panel LED Lighting,and more.
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