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hecatae
24th February 2012, 01:57 PM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/24/apple_patent_motorola/

Motorola Mobility has just won a patent lawsuit for Apple Germany infringing on their Push patent...

;)


The outage also affects MobileMe, but anyone using ActiveSync or other push mechanisms will be fine as the companies behind those aren't being sued by Motorola Mobility. iCloud and MobileMe users will have to switch to periodic polling while Apple appeals the decision, and the mobile industry's patent war spills into the pockets of ordinary users.

Oh dear :D

Apple Germany has had to produce a guide advising customer's how to initiate pulling requests: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4208?viewlocale=de_DE&locale=de_DE

Will this make IOS as useful as Symbian if it goes global?


The Motorola patent at issue in that litigation harks back to the time of pagers, a predecessor of text messages.

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012/02/motorola-forces-apple-to-deactivate.html

I dont tend to read most of Florian's articles, but I'm surprised a pager patent can do this.

Wilt
24th February 2012, 02:37 PM
Live by the sword, die by the sword.


It's not really a big issue though, the number of users who use iCloud email will be insignificant in comparison those those who Gmail/Hotmail/Other ActiveSync based push email systems.

The headlines this creates will be bigger than the actual effects, I think.

Ben
24th February 2012, 06:54 PM
I think this'll get overturned. If not, I'm sure Apple will figure out a way to tweak things to sidestep the patent.

Don't think there's any risk of it going global... but never say never I suppose.

Interesting fosspatents link, thanks!