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"Apple lost its bid to restore push email services to its iCloud users in Germany after the Mannheim regional court agreed with an earlier court decision that restricted the company from delivering the service following a patent lawsuit from Motorola Mobility.\r\n\r\nAs a result, the court will force Apple to pay damages to Motorola Mobility, although how much it will cost the company is unknown.\r\n\r\nOn February 24, Apple was forced to\u00A0suspend push services\u00A0on its iCloud platform in the country after Motorola Mobility successfully brought an injunction against the technology following recent patent lawsuits between the two companies.\r\n\r\nDetailing how it would impact its customers, Apple created a\u00A0Support page\u00A0on the subject stating that, as a result of a recent patent lawsuit from Motorola Mobility, users of its iCloud and MobileMe services would not receive push emails from Apple whilst they are \u201Cwithin the borders of Germany.\u201D\r\n\r\nApple said:\r\nAffected customers will still receive iCloud and MobileMe email, but new messages will be downloaded to their devices when the Mail app is opened, or when their device periodically fetches new messages as configured in iOS Settings. Push email service on desktop computers, laptop computers, and the web is unaffected, as is service from other providers such as Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.\r\nPush services automatically deliver new email to iOS devices without user interaction, doing away with traditional \u2018Pull\u2019 services that would poll email servers at specified intervals to download new mail messages.\r\n\r\n\r\nEarlier in the month, the European Commission announced it had\u00A0opened two formal antitrust investigations\u00A0against Motorola Mobility, seeking to asses whether it has abused its standard-essential patents to \u201Cdistort competition\u201D by\u00A0breaching\u00A0EU antitrust rules.\r\n\r\nThe investigation came after both Apple and Microsoft\u00A0issued complaints to the Commission, having both been the subject of patent lawsuits that sought injunctions to be placed on their products. Motorola moved to place import and sales bans on Apple\u2019s iPhone and iPad and Microsoft\u2019s Xbox console and Windows software.\r\n\r\nThe EC seeks to determine whether Motorola\u2019s enforcement of its\u00A0fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) patents\u00A0had resulted in a failure to \u201Chonour its irrevocable commitments made to standard setting organisations,\u201D the Commission said in a statement.\r\n\r\nThe judge presiding over the Apple/Motorola case was also due to make a decision on Motorola's mobile communications standards (which are the cause for the EC's investigation, detailed above), but it was adjourned. The judge did not say when the court will issue a decision on the case.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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