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 Legal news from Saturday, May 8, 2010 |
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Germany high court rejects temporary injunction against Greece bailout contribution
Haley Wojdowski on May 8, 2010 1:05 PM ET
[JURIST] Germany's constitutional court [official website, in German] Saturday refused [judgment, in German; press release, in German] to issue a temporary injunction against the German government's €22.4 billion ($28.5 billion) contribution [WSJ report] to a bailout package for Greece, which has lately been gripped by a critical debt crisis [BBC report]. The suit, brought by four lawyers and a businessman, claimed that the contribution would violate Germany's constitutional law. The court held that the complainants did not produce any "concrete evidence" that their rights, in particular their rights under Article 14 [text, in German] of Germany's Basic Law, could be "seriously and irreversibly" affected as a result of the guaranteed loan. The court's press release also noted that potential liability risk as a result of the contribution is outweighed by reducing the risks of damaging Germany's national economy as a result of instability of the European Monetary Union.
On Friday in Brussels, euro-zone leaders approved [BBC report] a €110 billion aid package for Greece to be repaid over three years. The "euro rebels," [DW report], the same four lawyers who brought the Greece suit, had previously sought to block block Germany's adoption of the euro.
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Nokia sues Apple for alleged iPad, iPhone patent infringements
Carrie Schimizzi on May 8, 2010 10:04 AM ET
[JURIST] Finnish telecommunications company Nokia [corporate website] announced Friday that it has filed a complaint [press release] in the US District Court in the Western District for Wisconsin [official website] alleging that Apple [corporate website] iPad and iPhone 3G products infringe five Nokia patents. The complaint claims that patents for enhanced speech and data transmission, as well as innovations in antenna configurations, are among the infringed technologies. The lawsuit is Nokia's latest move in a wide-ranging attack on Apple's patent position. In October Nokia sued Apple [JURIST report] in the US District Court for the District of Delaware [official website] for allegedly violating 10 patents [press release] on wireless technology on the iPhone. In December, Apple counter-sued, claiming Nokia had stolen 13 patents from the company.
Nokia is not the only competing corporation to have taken legal action against Apple over its iPhone brand. In November 2008, EMT Technologies Inc. sued Apple, claiming the company infringed EMT's patent [Computerworld report] for "apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming and scrolling Internet content." Earlier that year, Apple settled a suit [CNET report] with Klausner Technologies, which claimed Apple had infringed a patent [CNET report] relating to its visual voicemail function. In 2007, Apple was the target of another patent infringement suit relating to the iPhone keyboard [Ars Technica report].
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