US EditionAcer and ASUS Are Now Banned From Selling PCs and Laptops in Germany Following Nokia HEVC Video Codec Patent Ruling
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A sales stop currently hits PCs and notebooks of the Taiwanese manufacturers Acer and Asus in Germany. Reason is a patent dispute with Nokia about unlicensed video patents. Not the first sales bans because of patents of the Finns.read more on t3n.de
A new patent dispute makes it possible to reduce the supply of notebooks in Germany. Because Asus and Acer have to stop selling many notebook models in which Nokia patents are infringed up to a licence that is fair to both sides. The article Sales ban: Laptops from Acer and Asus have a problem first appeared on inside digital.
“Back then,” Nokia was successful in court against Amazon and ensured that certain Fire TV devices temporarily disappeared from the German market. The background was a patent dispute with Nokia regarding video coding. Exactly the same thing is now happening to Acer and ASUS, already at the end of January... To the article: Sales freeze: Nokia gets verdict against Asus and Acer for patent infringement
Because of a patent dispute with Nokia, there is currently a chewing stop. For the time being, Acer and ASUS are not allowed to offer PCs and notebooks in Germany.
After the Munich District Court came to the verdict that certain notebooks of Acer and Asus infringe a European patent of Nokia Corporation and are not allowed to be distributed further in Germany, the "Super-GAU" now came.
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