Apple granted injunction against Motorola in Germany

According to a recent report, the Munich I Regional Court has come to the ruling that certain Motorola devices have violated one of Apple’s patent, specifically the patent concerning “portable electronic device[s] for photo management”, which in short is essentially the photo gallery app that comes with Motorola’s Android devices. The patent is with regards to a specific animation, the bouncing overscroll animation (or rubber band effect if you prefer) which is similarly used in Apple’s photo gallery application.

It is because of this violation that the court has ruled that Apple will be granted an injunction against all of Motorola’s products which violated that patent. Motorola has since issued a statement saying:

Today’s ruling in Munich, Germany on the patent litigation brought by Apple concerns a software feature associated with performing certain functions when viewing photos in a ‘zoomed in’ mode on mobile devices. We note that the Court ruled that performing the functions in a ‘zoomed out’ mode does not infringe on this patent. We expect no impact to supply or future sales as we have already implemented a new way to view photos on our products that does not interfere with the user experience.

It looks like Motorola will be going down Samsung’s route by updating the software to make it in such a way that it no longer violates said patent.