Motorola can‘t enforce injunction against Microsoft in Germany: US court

Google’s strength in the ongoing smartphone patent wars has come down by a bit. A US appeals court yesterday ruled that Motorola Mobility, which the search giant acquired earlier this year, cannot enforce a patent injunction it acquired against Microsoft in Germany, as per a report by Reuters. The injunction, if enforced, will prohibit Microsoft from “offering, marketing, using or importing or possessing” some products including the Xbox 360 and other Windows applications and software in Germany. Motorola had sued Microsoft in Germany after the latter filed a lawsuit against it in the United States in 2010. The mobile phone manufacturer had acquired the injunction banning Microsoft from selling some of its products in Germany, following which Microsoft appealed in the United States. District Judge James Robart in Seattle granted Microsoft's request to put the German order on hold earlier this year. According to Robart, the ruling would remain in effect until he could determine whether Motorola could appropriately seek a sales ban based on its standard essential patents. 

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