Frankfurt: Apple has overturned an injunction awarded to Motorola yesterday preventing the Cupertino based company selling its iPad tablets via online stores in Germany.
“All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple’s online store in Germany shortly,” Apple spokesman Alan Hely said, adding that Apple was granted a suspension of the injunction.
He declined to say when exactly the sales would resume. Motorola was not immediately available for comment.
A regional German court in Mannheim ruled on December 9 that Apple Sales International, the European sales subsidiary of Apple in Cork, Ireland must stop selling or distributing mobile devices that infringe certain Motorola cellular communications patents.
That forced Apple to stop briefly the sale of iPhone 3G and 4 models and 3G/UMTS-based iPads on its German online store on Friday.
Motorola Mobility has said it had been negotiating with Apple and offering the company “reasonable licensing terms and conditions since 2007.”
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