It’s a mobile world. But it’s also a patent-crazy world. Here’s a roundup of recent developments in the ongoing patent war between Apple and Google‘s Android.
In Germany, Apple reportedly will resume online selling of its popular iPhones and iPads after being forced to stop for a while today because of an injunction won last month by Motorola Mobility. Separately today in that European country, FOSS Patents’ Florian Mueller reports that Motorola — the maker of Android smartphones and more that’s being bought by Google — won a permanent injunction against Apple’s push email service.
Also in Germany earlier this week, Apple lost a bid to ban Samsung from selling a new version of its Galaxy Tab. Earlier this week, a court had upheld a sales ban on an older version of Samsung’s Android-based tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Galaxy Tab 10.1N was redesigned to get around the sales ban.
And finally, in Australia today, Apple has expanded the scope of its patent battle against Samsung, adding 278 claims that cover 22 patents across 10 devices, according to The Next Web.
Meanwhile, in the United States, new numbers show that despite strong iPhone sales during the holidays, Android gained market share among the nation’s 97.9 million smartphone subscribers. Numbers from comScore, which yesterday issued its report for the quarter that ended in December: Android’s market share rose 2.5 percent from the previous quarter to 47.3 percent, iOS rose 2.2 percent to 29.6 percent, RIM fell 2.9 percent to 16 percent, Microsoft fell 0.9 percent to 4.7 percent, and Nokia’s Symbian fell 0.4 percent to 1.4 percent.
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Wait for that Samsung Galaxy SIII to come out - I hear it will record 1080p video directly. Great for you frequent vacationers.
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