Apple, which for a change has been on the losing side in the patent cases with Motorola has finally managed to turn the tables and win a critical patent dispute relating to 3G/UMTS wireless standard.
Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court has ruled that Apple products do not infringe upon the 3G / UMTS related inventions owned by Motorola Mobility.
The patent under question here is the European Patent 1053613, which specifically speaks about the “Code and System for Generating a Complex Pseudonoise Sequence for Processing a Code Division Multiple Access [CDMA] Signal.” The Judge Andreas Voss dismissed Motorola’s claim of infringement by Apple on the basis that Motorola was not able to provide conclusive evidence to demonstrate Apple’s violation.
The decision no doubt would bring relief to the Cupertino based tech giant, but acquires all the more significance based on the fact that this was the same court where Apple had lost patent infringement cases related to GPRS a patent in December and Push Services last week to Motorola.
Although, the respite might prove to be a short lived one for Apple should Motorola decide to challenge the decision in a higher court. For now there are no official statements made by either Apple or Motorola.
