Apple Loses European Swipe To Unlock Patent In Germany
The judges said that the European patent that Apple applied for in 2006 and was awarded in 2010, is not new and that a mobile phone from a Swedish company already exhibited these features before Apple’s devices did. Thus maintaining the decision passed by the German patents court, which Apple had pleaded against, the Karlsruhe court announced that the European patent is void within Germany. The German Federal Court is the country’s highest authority which rules on patents cases....