In the ongoing patent war between Android phone makers and, well, everyone else, Motorola has suffered a defeat in Germany. Over there, Microsoft effectively got a ban on Motorola smartphones. The ban isn't self-executing, as it requires that Microsoft post a 10 million euro bond in order to enforce it. Though that's probably going to happen.
The culprit is a patent related to FAT (File Allocation Table), and more specifically to a “common name space for long and short filenames”. Motorola has been found to be infringing this particular patent by the Mannheim Regional Court.
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