Apple Has Already Beat Motorola’s German Injunction Against iPhones And iPad Sales

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You know that so-called “permanent injunction” Motorola got against Apple that resulted in Apple pulling all iPhones and iPads short of the iPhone 4S off their online store earlier today? Already overruled, and Germans can once again get their iPhone and iPad on.

Slashgear reports:

Apple has been granted a suspension of the German injunction against 3G-enabled iOS devices, with the iPad WiFi + 3G, iPhone 4 and other gadgets back on sale through the company’s online store. ”All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple’s online store in Germany shortly” the company told us in a statement. “Apple appealed this ruling because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ago.”

So that didn’t last long: Germans went without being able to buy an iPhone or iPad online for a little under 12 hours. Just goes to show how ridiculously insignificant and short-sighted a lot of this patent maneuvering really is for the average consumer: what’s really at stake here are higher patent licensing fees, not products going off the market.

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